Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Damiani is appointed as a professor at Università degli studi di Catania in Sicily. Congratulations on this extraordinary success!

Studied Classics and Ancient Philosophy at the Università di Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (2008-2012) as well as at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (2009-2010). DAAD doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Classical Philology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2013-2014). Research assistant (2014-2019) and lecturer (Summer Term 2018) at the Chair of Greek Philology (Prof. Dr. M. Erler). Redactional editor of the journal Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft (2016-2019). 2019: PhD in History of Ancient Philosophy/Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (cotutelle de thèse).

2019-2024 : Postdoc research assistant, Institute of History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine, Medical University of Ulm.

Member of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft (since 2015), the Sokratische Gesellschaft (since 2015) and the Würzburg Research Centre on Epicureanism (since 2014).

 

 

Main research fields:

1. History of ancient science, with special focus on ancient medicine (Galenism).

2. Forms of ancient, especially Hellenistic, philosophical and technical-scientific prose

3. Literary papyrology

4. Digital Humanities