I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Classics and the Principal Investigator of the multidesciplinary project ATLOMY – “Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas” funded by an ERC-Starting Grant.
My research focuses on anatomy, physiology and diagnostics in pre-modern societies. I am intrigued by how people explored and interpreted nature, in particularly the living body, its structure and its workings. I find the collaboration with modern medical experts and practitioners particularly stimulating and fruitful. I incorporate digital means into my research, not only machine learning and data science for the sake of analysis of texts but also advanced interactive interfaces for presenting research results. To this end, I apply methods adn concepts from the Tech industry, such as product design, user experience and agile project-management
My fascination with how things are built and work extends to inanimate technologies and constructions – in particular planes, engines and sky-scrapers. I pursue these interests in my non-academic activities alongside my love for hiking, practicing krav maga and calisthenics, reading fiction, spending time with my family and friends and a few other things.
