Corinna Reinhardt has been Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology with a focus on Greek and Roman Antiquity at the University of Zurich since 2023. She studied Classical Archaeology (major), Ancient History and Law/Media Law (minors) in Munich and Rome. She wrote her doctoral dissertation at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich on the topic of «On the Relationship between Sculpture and Architecture – Studies on the Concept and Function of Figurative Acrotere of Greek Architecture from the Archaic Period to the Beginning of Hellenism» with a doctoral scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

As a research associate in Munich and Leipzig, and an academic assistant in the Collaborative Research Center 933 Materiale Textkulturen in Heidelberg, she researched and taught on topics including Greek and Roman sculpture, (materiality of) writing and images, and image studies.

From 2017-2023, she was assistant professor of Classical Archaeology at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg. During this time, she led a subproject in the interdisciplinary project «Iconographics. Computational Understanding of Iconography and Narration in Visual Cultural Heritage», which was funded by the university's Emerging Fields Initiative. The project was dedicated to the development and application of digital methods of computer vision and deep learning in the analysis of historical imagery. Promoting digital competencies was the approach of several courses and teaching projects, including the development of a virtual exhibition in three-dimensional, digitally modeled spaces.