Education

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (01.01.2019-31.03.2022). DFG-Project: Schriftkultur und Wirtschaftsleben im spätantiken Ephesos Neue Ostraka und Inschriften auf Gebrauchskeramik (SA 3735/1-1). Director: Prof. Dr. Patrick Sänger.

Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stipendiat, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (01.01.2013-31.07.2014; 01.11.2014-31.03.2015). Project: The Papyrus Fragments of Theopompus of Chios; supervisor: Prof. Dr. P. Funke.

Ph.D. in Civiltà e Tradizione Greca e Romana, Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (2007-2010; on cotutorship). Topic: Messenia in Pausanias: Dynastic Traditions between History and Propaganda; tutors: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ragone - Prof. Dr. Peter Funke.

Master's Degree in Scienze dell'Archeologia e Metodologia della Ricerca Storico-Archeologica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre (14.05.2007). Topic: Priene. From the Origins to the Foundation of the City of Alexander; referees: Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ragone - Prof. Dr. Giovanni Cerri.

Academic career and teaching activities

Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2022: Research Fellow, Department of Ancient History / Institute of Epigraphy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (DFG - Project: Written Culture and Economic Life in Late Antique Ephesus, dir. Patrick Sänger)

Ott. 2017 - Aug. 2023: Adjunct Lecturer, Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome

Gen. 2022: National Scientific Qualification (Associate Professor - 10/D1 - Ancient History)

Nov. 2020: National Scientific Qualification (Associate Professor - 10/D4 - Classical Philology / Papyrology)

Research work

2019-2022: Member of the Austrian archaeological team working at Ephesus, Selçuk, Turkey (Dir.: Sabine Ladstätter, ÖAI/ÖAW, Wien, Austria)

Nov.-Dec. 2021 - Jun. 2022: Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire PLH - Erasme, University of Toulouse 2 - Jean Jaurès (ERC Project "MAP. Mapping Ancient Polytheisms. Cult Epithets as an Interface between Religious Systems and Human Agency" - P.I. Corinne Bonnet)

Jan. 2020: Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire AOrOc. Archéologie & Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident - CNRS-PLS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

2015-2018: Member of the Franco-German research team in Aigai in Aeolis and Pergamum (DFG-CNRS Project: "NekroPergEol. Von den Grabhügeln der Herrscher zu den Nekropolen der Bürger"; dir. Felix Pirson, DAI Istanbul - Stéphane Verger, AOROC UMR8546, Paris)

Jan.-Apr. 2017: Scientific associate, Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte, University of Hamburg (Project: "Epigraphische Datenbank zum Antiken Kleinasien - EDAK," resp. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu)

2012-2015: Member of the archaeological research group working in Cyme in Aeolis (Missione Archeologica Italiana a Kyme Eolica [MAIKE]; Namurt Limanı-Aliağa, Turkey; dir.: Antonio La Marca, University of Calabria, Cosenza; resp. epigraphic project: Giuseppe Ragone, University "Roma Tre")  

2007-2008: Member of archaeological survey team on the site of Temnos d'Aeolis (Project: "Temnos [Görece Kale - Southern Aeolis] Research Project", Görece Kale, Turkey; dir.: Giuseppe Ragone, University "Roma Tre")

Memberships in societies and scientific committees

2024- : Member of the SISR - Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni

2022- : Member of the CUSGR – Consulta Universitaria per la Storia Greca e Romana

2021- : Member of the AIEGL – Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine

2018- : Member of the CUP – Consulta Universitaria di Papirologia

2015- : Member of the international association GaHiA – Geography and Historiography in Antiquity

2019- : Peer-Reviewer: Hormos. Ricerche di Storia antica; Seminari di storia e storiografia greca; Anabases. Traditions et Réceptions de l'Antiquité; Nuova Antologia Militare. Rivista interdisciplinare della Società Italiana di Storia Militare; Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni; Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni