Costanza is an Italian archaeologist from Prato who completed her Master's of Art in Archaeology at the University of Florence. She came to Berlin in 2006 for her PhD studies in Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she completed a thesis about pottery and its use as both a chronological indicator and an item for daily use. She also started working as researcher at the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology of the FU Berlin.

Costanza has been included in the publication of scientific articles, participated in international conferences and workshops, and gained vast teaching experience, while improving her skills as field archaeologist. She has worked on excavations in Italy (Poggibonsi, Peccioli, Sesto Fiorentino), Syria (Tell Barri, Tell Bazi, and Tell Fekheriye), and Iraq (survey project in Iraqi Kurdistan). This background forms the basis of her familiary with and knowledge of the rich collections of both the Pergamon Museum and the Neues Museum, which are an important part of the history of the city of Berlin.