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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
I am a historian and epigrapher of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds: my current research uses Machine Learning to study the epigraphic cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Since obtaining my DPhil in Ancient History (University of Oxford), I have held fellowships at the British School at Rome, Harvard’s CHS and Google Cloud. I co-led the Pythia (2019) and Ithaca (2022) projects, and continue to work on the socio-cultural
I am a classicist by training: my PhD thesis studied the social histories and identities of western Sicilian communities across the epigraphical and funerary evidence.