Simone Gigliotti is Reader in Holocaust Studies in the Department of History. At Royal Holloway, she is affiliated with the Holocaust Research Institute (as Deputy Director), the Centre for the GeoHumanities, the Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric, and the Conflict and Violence Terrorism Research Centre. She is also Director of Postgraduate Taught Education in the School of Humanities. 

Her research of late addresses the Holocaust's European and global transport histories (trains, ships, and foot movements) from organisational, maritime, environmental and multi-witness perspectives. Additional research interests include digital storytelling of the Holocaust using geospatial platforms, and Holocaust institutions' pivot to mapping archival collections and Nazi-era and postwar trajectories.

Her most recent publication is the digital, open access book project, Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced (Indiana University Press, 2023). Forthcoming publications include a study of networks of humanitarian relief provision for Jewish refugees in the Philippines during the 1930s and 1940s, and a special issue of the Journal of Transport History on the theme of "conflict transport".