Matteo Compareti graduated from the University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari” (1999) and defended his PhD in Iranian Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” (2005).

康马泰，1999年毕业于意大利威尼斯大学，后转读那不勒斯东方大学，于2005年取得博士学位。

Professor Compareti's main field of investigation is the study of the iconography of the Zoroastrian deities of Persia and Central Asia in the pre-Islamic era. He has held teaching courses on art history and archaeology of pre-Islamic Persia and Central Asia in the United States of America (University of California, Berkeley) and in the People’s Republic of China (Renmin University of China, Shaanxi Normal University, and Capital Normal University). Among his most relevant publications, there are Samarkand the Center of the World. Proposals for Reading the Pictorial Cycle of Afrāsyāb, Costa Mesa CA, 2016 (now available in Chinese published by Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing, 2023) and From Sasanian Persia to the Tarim Basin. Pre-Islamic Art and Culture along the Silk-Road, Rome, 2021.