Flavia Bartoli is a professor in botany, has a PhD in biology applied to the conservation and valorization of cultural heritage. She has been involved in several national (Pompeii and Ercolano; Crypt of the Original Sin (Matera); Cupid and Psyche Lodge (Rome)) and international (Angkor (Cambodia), Cappadocian Site (Turkey)) projects for the conservation and valorization of cultural heritage. She was also visiting teacher for the ACRA foundation project “Zanzibar Built Heritage Job Creation” and a professor for the International Master “BioHeritage: Biology for the Knowledge and Conservation of Cultural Heritage”. She graduated with honors in biology from Roma Tre University.