Vincenzo DAMIANI

I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Classics in 2010 from the University of Pisa and a Master’s degree in Classical Philology in 2012. In 2013, I received a Diploma (Diploma di licenza) in Philosophy from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where I continued my research with a doctoral scholarship. In 2015, I was awarded funding by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In September 2019, I completed my PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore and Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (co-supervision) with a dissertation on the forms and functions of philosophical compendia in Epicureanism. In 2021, I obtained the Italian scientific qualification as an associate professor in the field of Greek Studies.

From 2014 to 2019, I worked as a research associate at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Würzburg, contributing to the development of digital tools for automatic image segmentation and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applied to literary papyri and Greek incunabula (Anagnosis). I contributed to the Thesaurus Herculanensium Voluminum online and the Digital Corpus of Literary Papyri. From 2016 to 2019, I served as an editor for the Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft, and in 2018, I taught Greek Literature as a lecturer at the University of Würzburg. From 2019 to 2024, I held a research position at the Institute for History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Ulm, where I was responsible for teaching the History of Ancient Medicine and Medical Terminology. In addition to my work at the University of Ulm, I also continued to teach Greek and Latin Literature at the University of Würzburg from 2022 to 2024. I am a member of the Würzburger Zentrum für Epikureismusforschung, the Mommsen-Gesellschaft, and the Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie (GAnPh).

I am currently working on a German Habilitationsschrift in Classical Philology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, focusing on “Rhetorical Strategies for Constructing Epistemic Authority in Medical, Philosophical, and Religious Literature of the Imperial Period.” My research interests include the rhetorical-communicative aspects of Greek scientific literature, especially medical texts, literary papyrology (with a particular emphasis on Herculaneum papyrology), the history of classical philology, ancient philosophy, and digital humanities.