Rachele Scuro (PhD) specializes in economic and social history between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, with a focus on the history of Venice and the Venetian State, as well as on the history of the Jews in the Euro-Mediterranean context. She has carried out postdoctoral research at the Universities of Basel, Verona, Milano-Bicocca, Cambridge, and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, as well as at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Pavia and teaches "History of Venice" at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Within the project, she deals with the case study of the city of Bergamo, analyzing the interactions between the management of local taxation, changes in socioeconomic inequalities, and the mitigation strategies adopted by civic institutions under Venetian rule.