Donatella Rita Fiorino is a Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari, Department of Civil-Environmental Engineering and Architecture (DICAAR) where she teaches Laboratory of  Survey and Restoration and Restoration worksites within the Master of Architecture; module of Restoration  within the Techniques for Building Construction and Land Development (TET). She is a member of the Organizing Committee of the School of Specialization in Architectural Heritage and Landscape, where she teaches Archaeological Restoration, Laws, Processes and Methods for the Restoration Design and Restoration of the Modern Architecture. She is also a member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Cagliari (from cycle XXXIII) and the Academic Board of the PhD of National Interest in Defense against natural hazards and ecological transition of the built Heritage (University of Catania).

After the master degree in Civil Engineering (Cagliari,1999) and a PhD in Preservation of Architectural Heritage (Milano,2005), she specialized in Restoration of Monuments (Milano,2007). From 2010 to 2015 she was Architect for the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism where she dealt with architectural and landscape preservation, cataloging and management of Cultural Heritage through information systems and ICT, particularly as a reference for systems SICAR/wb and SIGEC/wb. She also coordinated the technical department of public works. From 2012 to 2019 she held the role of Temporary Researcher (ex art. 24, c.3, letter a) and b) of L. 240/2010 at the University of Cagliari, becoming Associate Professor in 2019.

Her researches focuse on the recognition and analysis of cultural heritage, even in terms of National Risk Charter and UNESCO Management Plans; archaeology, archaeometry, archeology of built heritage and urban stratigraphy; framework and quality of restoration project for cultural heritage. Since 2018 she has been the scientific manager of the Collaboration Agreement signed on 18 September 2018 between the University of Cagliari and the Ministry of Defence - General Secretariat of Defence on research and training activities in the field of engineering and architecture, full member of the Scientific Technical Committee and coordinator of the project technical boards. Currently, she works on mensiocronological study of monumental architecture in Sardinia, and in particular, of wide urban conventual complexes, rural churches, fortified systems and city walls, including the development of information systems for management and interpolation of data. In parallel, she conducts researches on the the history of the protection in Italy and the sustainable use and reuse of defence and military Heritage.

She collaborates with several universities and national and international research Institutions, including the Universities of Edimburgh, Portsmouth and Lisbon; she is a member of the Italian Society of Restoration of Architecture (SIRA), Member and Secretary of the National Scientific Commitee of the Italian Institute for Castles, Expert Member for ICOFORT and member of ICOMOS Italy.

She is author of numerous scientific publications.

Cagliari, 3rd september 2023