PhD in CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND ITS RECEPTION: ARCHAEOLOGY,
PHILOLOGY, HISTORY

Current: University of Rome Tor Vergata, Full Professor of Classical Philology.

            Director, Dept. of Literature, Philosophy and Art History

            Director, transdisciplinary Research Centre on Classics, Mathematics, Philosophy “Forms of           Knowledge in the Ancient World”, University of Rome Tor Vergata.

2000–2016        University of Rome Tor Vergata, Tenured Researcher and Adjoint Professor.

1997–2007        University of Rome LUMSA, Adjoint Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy.

1997–2011        University of Rome LUMSA, Teaching of Humanities computing.

1994–1997        University of L’Aquila, Adjoint Professor, History of Ancient Philosophy.

1994–2000        Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei / Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare, Scientific consultant in the field of Humanities computing.

 

Teaching

Classical Philology (BA, MA, PhD); History of scientific tought (MA); Humanities computing (Labs); European Thought (formerly Foundations of European Thought) (BA).

 

Education

2002     PhD in Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Dissertation: Menodoto di Nicomedia. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica, published.

1989     MA summa cum laude in Ancient Greek Literature, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Thesis: Il lessico intellettuale di Ippocrate (pp. 476), partially published.

 

International Awards

2007     Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel International Prize, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

 

National Awards

2019     “Mario Di Nola” Prize, awarded by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for the editio princeps of Galen’s Hippocratic Glossary.

2001     Prize of the Italian Ministry of Culture, awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for «the important contributions to the history of ancient philosophical and scientific thought».

1997     G. Borgia Prize for Philosophy, awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for «the original contributions concerning aspects of Greek philosophy and culture».

 

Research grants

2023     FIS 5-year Research Project (PI): Ancient Science, Ancient Philosophy. The philosophical foundations of ancient science

2014     Research Project: Non-Hippocratic Greek medicine: Berliner Antike Kolleg, Freie Universität, Berlin

2010     Research Project: Non Hippocratic and temple medicine of the classical age: Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Zurich, Switzerland

1999     Research project: Presocratic philosophy: 1-year grant, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

1990     Research Project: Hippocratic science: National Research Council, Italy.

 

 

Visiting scholarships

2021     Visiting Professor, Venice International University, Venice, Italy

2019     Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin

2017     Visiting Professor, Venice International University, Venice, Italy

2015     University of Hamburg, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow

2014     Fellow, Berliner Antike Kolleg, Berlin

2014     University of Munich, DAAD Fellow

2013     University of Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Petra Kappert Fellow

2012     Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, University of Hamburg, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow

2008-2009         Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Academy of Sciences of Berlin-Brandenburg

2006     Research Associate, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London

1996-7  Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Institut für klassische Philologie, University of Munich.

 

Other grants and awards

2003     National Research Council “Short-term” grant, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

2003     6-month National Research Council-NATO fellowship, University of Münich, Germany

2001     National Research Council “Short-term” grant, University of Munich, Germany

1996     Grant by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, for attending as a discussant a series of 7 lectures by Hans Georg Gadamer on Presocratic philosophy.

1994     Research grant, Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, University of Vienna.

1991-3  2-year fellowship at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for research in the field of Humanities Computing.

1989     Study grant by the German-Italian Academy of Merano, Italy, for a 2-month study stay at the University of Vienna.

1987     Study grant by the German-Italian Academy of Merano, Italy, for a 2-month study stay at the University of Würzburg, Germany.

 

Invited Lectures

Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Göttingen, Paris, Newcastle, Budapest, Los Angeles, Lausanne, Locarno, Bellinzona, IIT Genova, Ravenna, Venice, Naples, Florence, Pisa, Ferrara, Bologna, Rome, Ancona, Parma, Pavia, Genève.

 

Invited participant at many national and international Conferences.

 

Coordination of Research Projects

2014     Spaces, Places, People. An Atlas of Medicine in the Ancient World – Research Centre “Forms of Knowledge in the ancient world”, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

2013     Travel of ideas and techniques. East and West. Writing, preserving and disseminating scientific knowledge in Antiquity – Research Centre “Forms of Knowledge in the ancient world”, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

2000     A Synoptic Electronic Concordance of Galen’s works in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e la Storia delle Idee – Sezione Storia del Pensiero Antico (project suspended after 1st year due to CNR budgetary cuts).

 

Membership

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, member of the “Coordinating Committee of former members of the Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare”.

AIUCD – Italian Association for Digital Humanities.

Scuola Superiore di Studi in Filosofia, Rome.

1992–2014 CISADU (Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi per l’Automazione nelle Discipline Umanistiche), Sapienza University of Rome.

 

Other activities

Visiting scholar at the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique (Geneva, Switzerland), and at the University of Cambridge UK.

Referee for the Czech Academy of Science.

Referee for the Italian Committee for the Evaluation of Universities (Anvur).

Member of juries for fellowships of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).

 

Direction of periodicals and Editorial boards

since 2023         Director of “Science and Technology for Cultural Heritage”

since 2022         Co-Director of “Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici”

since 2016         Co-Director of “Technai. An international journal on ancient science and technology”

since 2012         Co-founder and Member of the Board of the online periodical “Fogli di Filosofia”.

since 2006         Member of the board of “Galenos. Rivista di filologia dei testi medici”.

1988-2000         Member of the board of the periodical of classical studies “Museum Criticum”.

 

Conferences organized

Oct. 2018          16th “Colloque International Hippocratique”, Rome, in collaboration with Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Ecole Française de Rome, Istituto Papirologico G. Vitelli, University of Florence, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’.

Sept. 2018         Asclepiades of Bythinia – International Workshop, Rome

June 2016          Akousmata. Giornata di studi in memoria di Walter Burkert, in collaboration with University of Zurich and Istituto Svizzero di Roma

2017     International workshop “Le parole della scienza”, Rome, University of Rome Tor Vergata

2014     Letture Romane di Filosofia Antica, 2a serie: Galen. University of Roma Tre and Tor Vergata

2013     Atene Alessandria Roma. Forme del sapere nel mondo antico, University of Rome Tor Vergata

2013     Letture Romane di Filosofia Antica, 1a serie: Proclus. University of Rome Tre and Tor Vergata

2008     Seminario Nazionale sulla medicina Antica, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Monteporzio Catone (Roma), Villa Mondragone

since 2000 – Organized or co-organized more than 100 lectures of Italian and foreign leading academics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

 

University Service at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”:

Director of the Dept. of Literature, Philosophy and Art History

Former Member of the Academic Senate.

Member of the Research Center on Euro-Asian Studies (CSEA, Centro Studi Euro-asiatici).

Member of the Board of the PhD in Classics.

Member of the Governing Board of the “Global Governance” BA Program, Faculty of Economics.

Former Member of the Disciplinary Committee.

Former Member of the Library Board.

Former Member of the Faculty Presidency Board.