Emanuela is the founder and academic lead of the Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network. She is Head of Research (Humanities) and Senior Fellow at Worcester College; Hill Collection of Musical Instruments at the Ashmolean Museum. She also leads on all conservation, research and curatorial aspects at the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments at the University of Oxford. Emanuela works at the intersection of Early Modern History, Built Environment, Music and Material Culture Studies, and Digital Humanities. Her research combines the analysis of historical materials with 3D virtual modelling, GIS platforms and acoustic analysis, to investigate the relationship between art, music, space and the senses in the Renaissance. Her publications focus on musical instruments, soundscapes, space and the senses in Renaissance social life. Emanuela champions the public engagement of academic research, working across a diversity of cultural heritage and digital humanities projects, with the aim of building and improving partnerships between academia, policy and industry for the study and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.