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I am overjoyed to be joining the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University as Assistant Professor in Greek History and Digital Humanities! I'm truly grateful to the inspirational people, the incredible cities, and the crazy projects I've encountered along my journey, and really excited to head North.

It seems only yesterday that I packed and shipped my life in Venice across Europe (sinking a few gondolas along the way) and started a Leverhulme EC Fellowship at Nottingham. I have loved my time here, and I'm grateful to my colleagues and friends for making me feel so welcome back in the UK. Here is an interview on tips on applying for an Early Career Fellowship at Nottingham.

Ithaca's not back - it's better. Introducing Aeneas, published today in Nature, the first generative AI model for contextualising, restoring, dating and placing Roman inscriptions. Read the OA paper here, use the free online interface for your personal research at predictingthepast.com, and check out the blogpost release we wrote with Google DeepMind.

We thank our sponsors Google DeepMind, Vesuvius Challenge and Athena Research Center, all the authors presenting their papers, our Program Committee for their outstanding work. We received the highest number of workshop submissions at ACL2024! 💎 A huge thank you to my co-chairs, we made a splendid team! Visit the ML4AL official website for more information.

Last week my Marie Curie project PythiaPlus came to a close. These 2 years have flown by, and I'm incredibly grateful to the EU Commission, to my mentors and collaborators around the world, and to Venice for being such a magical city to live in and explore.
You can find the project's results on CORDIS here and a feature on the European Commission's "R&I Success Stories" website here.

I am absolutely thrilled to have been awarded a Leverhulme ECF at the University of Nottingham starting 1 January 2024.
Looking forward to returning to the UK to join a fantastic department and work on a new research project!

One year since Ithaca was published, we were invited by the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Epigraphic Museum of Athens to talk about how our tool is being used by historians today. Here is the event invite.

I am incredibly honoured to have been awarded the Ghislieri Prize by my undergraduate college in Pavia!

I presented our work on Ithaca at Congrès International d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine 2022 (CIEGL) in Bordeaux, and immensely enjoyed catching up with fellow epigraphists at the conference.

On the cover of Nature today, our work Ithaca on restoring, locating and dating Greek inscriptions using deep neural networks.
Read the OA article here, use the free online interface for your personal research at ithaca.deepmind.com, and watch the video filmed by Nature.

Today I moved to Venice to begin my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship on the project PythiaPlus at Ca' Foscari University of Venice!

Incredibly grateful to have been awarded the Premio "Giuseppe Nenci" 2020 for my doctoral thesis on ancient Sicily by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and Donnafugata srl.