Anastasia is the Curator of Greece, Rome and Cyprus at the Department of Antiquities of the Fitzwilliam Museum ( Senior Assistant Keeper). She is responsible for research and exhibition projects and permanent displays in the fields of Greek, Cypriot and Roman collections. She is currently leading the 4-year research project ‘Being an Islander’: Art and Identity of the large Mediterranean Islands, (2019-2023) aiming to critically re-examine the concept of island life through material culture (project website: Being an Islander (cam.ac.uk) . The project will culminate in a large exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum (21/02/202- 05/06/2023) displaying archaeological finds and artworks from the islands of Cyprus, Sardinia and Crete. She has previously curated an interdisciplinary exhibition on the history of codebreaking. Anastasia gained her PhD in Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (2008) and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Topoi Excellence Cluster, Freie Universität Berlin (2009-2010), prior to joining the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has also lectured for the University of London, Birkbeck College and is currently an external collaborator to two interdisciplinary research networks in Cyprus and Germany.

Me departmental websites: at the  Fitzwilliam Museum: The Fitzwilliam Museum - Anastasia Christophilopoulou and at the Department of  Archaeology, Cambridge: Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou | Department of Archaeology (cam.ac.uk)