Research interests include: the anthropology of death; mortuary culture and ritual practices; cemeteries and funerary landscapes; necrotourism and dark heritage; memory and cultural narratives of death and religion, ritual and contemporary mortuary practices. Academic activities include research and conference participation focusing on funerary culture, ritual practices and the cultural role of cemeteries in contemporary societies and the development of curatorial research projects related to death studies and mortuary heritage.

Saderi, S. Zielo, A. (2023) ‘Il lutto riesumato. La Certosa di Bologna: uno studio antropologico e tanatologico’, in A. Zielo (ed.) Toccando l’oltre. Los guardo e la cura al limite del corpo, Padova: Padova University Press, 553-581.