Biography
Irena Radić Rossi enrolled in 1983 in the Archaeology study programme at the Department of Archaeology of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. She graduated in 1988, and in the same year won the concourse for the permanent position of the underwater archaeologist-conservator in the Department of Archaeology of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Zagreb.In 2004 she obtained the title of the senior conservator, as the highest rank in the cultural heritage conservation service. In 2009 she moved to the University of Zadar, where she is currently employed in the quality of the associated professor at the Department of Archaeology. She is the associated researcher of the Centre Camille Jullian (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS), adjunct professor at the Nautical Archaeology Program of the Texas A&M University, affiliated scholar of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, and teaches at the Master of Global Maritime Archaeology of the University of Malta.She directed a number of underwater surveys and rescue campaigns, and currently directs three systematic research projects. Her main research interests focus on the research, protection and preservation of the underwater cultural heritage, with special accent on the technological development of shipbuilding and seafaring in the Adriatic through ages. She was the principal investigator of the Archaeology of the Adriatic Shipbuilding and Seafaring (AdriaS) Project, and is currently directing the Numerical Reconstruction in the Archaeology of Seafaring (NEREAS) Project, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation.