Elizabeth De Gaetano has been awarded a PhD from the University of Southampton after she successfully defended her thesis, ‘Visualising Pozzuoli: Textual and Visual reconstructions of a Roman port town’.

De Gaetano obtained her bachelor’s degree in archaeology from the University of Malta and the degree of Master of Science in archaeological computing from the University of Southampton. She worked for two years as an illustrator with Oxford Archaeology Heritage Consultancy in Oxford and later moved to the British School in Rome where she worked as geophysical research assistant and supervisor on the Portus Project.

For some time De Gaetano taught at the Brussels International Catholic School and later she moved to Brussels where she worked as EU administrative assistant to the Maltese representative on the Political and Security Committee.

De Gaetano resides in Basel, Switzerland. She is married to Carlo Messina and has a daughter, Martina.