Current position
Professor in History of Science (SSD M-STO/05) – University of Bologna
(2025-Today) Principal Investigator of the ERC Project (Synergy Grant)
(2017-2022) Principal Investigator of the ERC Project (Consolidator Grant) "Alchemy in the Making:From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE -1000 AD)" - Acronym: AlchemEast
Past positions
(10.2017-08.2020) Associate professor in History of Science (SSD M-STO/05) – University of Bologna
(07.2016-09.2017) Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter); Berlin-brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Project: Galen of Pergamum. The Transmission, Interpretation and Completion of Ancient Medicine (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum)
(09.2012-06.2016) Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter); Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – SFB Project 980: Episteme in Bewegung; sub-project (directed by Prof. Philip Van der Eijk; Prof. Mark Geller): Der Transfer medizinischer Episteme in den ‚enzyklopädischen‘ Sammelwerken der Spätantike.
Fellowships and scholarships
(2010-2012) Post-Doc AvHu-Fellowship; Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Alexander von Humboldt Professorship Programme (directed by Prof. Philip van der Eijk): Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body
(2009-2010) Post-Doc Edelstein Fellowship; Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia (USA)
(2006) "Marco Polo Programme" Scholarship; Centre d'histoire des doctrines de la fin de l'Anquité et du haut Moyen-Âge (CNRS – UPR 76), Paris
(2004-2006) PhD Fellowship; Dipartimento di Filologica classica e medievale, University of Bologna
Education
(2012) PhD in History of Science (06.06.2012); Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, University of Pisa (Supervisors: Prof. Maria Michela Sassi; Prof. Marco Beretta)
(2007) PhD in Classics (Ancient Greek Philology; 15.05.2007); Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medievale, University of Bologna (Supervisor: Prof. Vinicio Tammaro)
(2002) MA in Classics; Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medievale, University of Bologna
