After my studies at the Catholic University in Milan, I moved to Austria in 2009, where I obtained my PhD in classics and Greek palaeography from the University of Vienna two years later. My supervisors were Carlo Maria Mazzucchi in Milan, Herbert Bannert and Ernst Gamillscheg in Vienna. From 2010 to 2011, I worked as a job student on the project Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität (LBG) led by Erich Trapp. From 2012 to 2021, I worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a junior, and then senior researcher and project leader. My research focuses are: on Medieval Greek linguistics (the language of Byzantine historians; Greek translations of Latin theological texts); and on the medieval schooling system (scholia on Sophocles; textbooks).
In Ghent, as a professor of Greek, I am teaching Ancient Greek Linguistics I and General Linguistics II in the second and third bachelor, and Special Research Questions in Greek Linguistics in the master. I supervise BA and MA theses on the varieties of Byzantine Greek, the history of the verb φάσκω from Homer to the Second Sophistic, and on Kalekas’ Greek translations of Latin theological works. As the PI of MELA, I promote the research of several scholars focusing on the textbooks for the teaching of Greek of the Palaeologan era, and on the grammar of Atticized Greek. In addition, I am attending to the difficult edition of Moschopoulos’ scholia on Sophocles, and of Planoudes’ Attikismoi.