Lia is the founder of the (en)coding Heritage Network and a Junior Research Fellow in the History of Art at Merton College. She is an art historian who is interested in digital techniques for the study and preservation of material and visual culture. She earned a DPhil from the University of Oxford in the History of Art and held Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the laboratories of Digital Humanities and Experimental Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Together with Mattia Montanari and Richard Smith, Lia is also part of the Oxford X-Reality Hub.