Angela Bellia is Professor of Musicology and History of Music in the Department of Cultures and Societies at the University of Palermo. Her research interests include archaeomusicology, soundscape archaeology, sound studies, and digital heritage.

She has held research positions at prestigious institutions including the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU), the University of Bologna, the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the University of Zürich, and the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Her research activities have been supported by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme.

She was the Principal Investigator for the AURAL project and is the recipient of a recent Advanced Grant from the Italian Science Fund (FIS). She has been an invited or selected speaker at over 150 international conferences and advanced schools across multiple continents.

She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the TELESTES series and the Telestes: An International Journal of Archaeomusicology and Archaeology of Sound. As the Chair and a founding member of the Archaeomusicology Interest Group (AMIG) of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), she has organised numerous panels for their Annual Meetings. For her contribution to the promotion of European research, she received the Marie Curie Alumni Association “MCAA Outstanding Contributor Award” (2021).