Nicola Gadaleta (b. 1993, Molfetta) graduated in Modern Philology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and since 2019 he’s enrolled in the 14th cycle of doctoral studies at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici of the University of the Republic of San Marino with the project “The Cathedral Chapter of Bari from its beginnings to the early Angevin period (1309)” under the scientific direction of Prof. Dr. Francesco Panarelli and Prof. Dr. Giorgio Otranto.

From April to July 2018, he has been visiting scholar at the chair of Medieval History of Prof. Dr. Thomas Wetzstein at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and since October 2021 he works as research fellow and teaching assistant at the chair of Medieval History and the Paul Maria Baumgarten Institut für Papsttumsforschung at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jochen Johrendt. His research focuses on the history of secular ecclesiastical institutions in southern Italy, especially the canon colleges and cathedral chapters in medieval Apulia.