Caterina Papi lives and works in Rome as a Curator at the Capitoline Museum (Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali) and she is in charge of the Epigraphic Collection of the Antiquarium at Celio.
Since 2006 she has been professor of Church History and Christian Archeology at the Religious Science Institute "Redemptor Hominis" at the Pontifical University Antonianum in Rome. Her academic works are mainly on Epigraphy with a focus on Roman Imperial Period and Christian Archeology (https://sbfjerusalem.