Dr Simone Gigliotti is Reader in Holocaust Studies in the Department of History and Deputy Director of the College's Holocaust Research Institute (HRI). 

Dr Gigliotti's research and publications focus on the Holocaust's transport and displacement histories from the perspective of lived experience (place, time, and transit), in addition to testimony, space, and film.

Her most recent monograph is Restless Archive: The Holocaust and the Cinema of the Displaced (Indiana University Press, 2023, Open Access). This innovative book/platform has received national and international attention with invited talks, interviews, and contributions to numerous universities and Jewish museums in the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Czechia, and the United States.

In December 2025, Restless Archive was awarded The Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research, one of the most esteemed and coveted prizes in the field. 

Finally, Dr Gigliotti is RHUL's Academic and Technical Partner Lead at the EHRI-UK (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure-United Kingdom). EHRI-UK is also a founding partner of the wider EHRI-ERIC consortium in Europe. 

Dr Gigliotti teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules (as convener and seminar contributor) in the Department of History, specialising in research-led teaching about the Holocaust, genocide, and memory, and leading digital skills discovery workshops. She regularly directs the MA Holocaust Studies degree and also convenes one of its modules ("A Transnational Holocaust: Jewish Refugees and their flight from Nazi Europe"), and delivers training in geospatial digital skills (including StoryMaps). 

Royal Holloway

Deputy Director, Holocaust Research Institute

Senior Research Fellow, Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre

Member, Centre for the GeoHumanities

Research Associate, Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric

UK and International

RHUL Academic and Technical Partner Lead, EHRI-UK

Senior Fellow (SFHEA), Advance HE

Fellow, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

Member, ESRC Peer Review College

Member, EHRI Holocaust Photographs Expert Group (2022-2024)

Affiliated Scholar, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research

Affiliate, Holocaust Geographies Collaborative

Editorial Board, Journal of Holocaust Research

International Advisory Board, Journal of Genocide Research