FWO PhD fellow fundamental research (CULT4ASP - Theology and Religion Sciences) at the History Department of Ghent University, in joint-PhD with the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes (EPHE | PSL), as part of the UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée (CNRS).
PhD project title «The Church, the desert, and the mountains: the social organization of Miaphysite communities from the 6th century to early Islamic rule (8th c.)»
BA and MA in Classics from La Sapienza – Università di Roma.
MA thesis on East Syrian Historiography and Social History (title "A socio-economic analysis of Edessa’s élite (rawrbânê d-mdîtâ) from the Chronicle of the ps. Joshua the Stylite", supervised by Alberto Camplani and Marco Maiuro)
BA thesis on Spartan Kingship and the Oracle of Delphi, supervised by Pietro Vannicelli
Additional specialized training in
- Syriac Paleography and Codicology through internships at the IRHT | CNRS, Paris, under the supervision of André Binggeli and Flavia Ruani, within the E-KTOBE project
- Coptic Literature (thesis supervised by Paola Buzi on the Corpus of Frange's ostraka)
- Latin epigraphy (collaboration with the EDR database in Rome, supervised by Silvia Orlandi)
Collaborator to the GREgORI Project (Peeters Publishers).