Mattia Vitelli Casella

Student of the University of Bologna, where he got in 2004 the BA in Classical Studies and in 2007 the MA in Ancient History.

He undertook the Phd program in Ancient History at the same University and obtained the title with label of Doctor Europaeus in 2011. As Phd student he spent three months both at the University Bordeaux 3 and the University of Vienna. After the Phd he specialized in Latin epigraphy of Dalmatia and pursued a project entitled “The members of the emperor’s family through the epigraphic material of the Roman province Dalmatia”. Then, he gained two scholarships:

• The Ernst-Mach Grant by the Austrian Agency for International Mobility, which enabled him to work at the University of Vienna, Institut für Alte Geschichte, Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik;
• The Slovenian Bilateral scholarship, which gave him the possibility to work at the Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

From February 2017 to January 2022 he was Research Fellow at this department, charged with a project on the Roman Regio VIII in the Adriatic context.