THE RESEARCH TEAM

Christian Vassallo

Principal Investigator

christian.vassallo@unito.it

Christian Vassallo studied Classics at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (PhD). He has been Junior Research Fellow at the National Research Council in Rome (CNR-ILIESI, ERC-Starting Grant 241184-PHerc: Interactive Edition and Interpretation of Various Works by Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers Surviving at Herculaneum); DFG-Projektleiter and Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Trier (Projekt VA 1030/1-1: Die Vorsokratiker in den Herkulanensischen Papyri); Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Chair of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation award-holder at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. He is now Full Professor of Papyrology at the University of Turin. His main research interests are Papyrology (especially the Herculaneum papyri and the philosophical papyrus texts) and the History of Ancient Philosophy (especially the Presocratics, Plato and Platonism, and the Hellenistic Schools).

Roberta Pibiri

Project Manager

roberta.pibiri@unito.it

Roberta Pibiri received her PhD in Sociology (University of Turin, 2016), with a specialization in Sociology of Religions and qualitative research methods. She has worked in the Third Mission and public engagement field at the University of Turin (Research, Innovation and Internationalization Division - Research Impact and Valorisation and Public Engagement Area) and in collaboration with APEnet association. She currently works as a project manager of the ERC-CoG 101086695-APATHES (Department of Historical Studies) at SUM Hub Division - Research and Innovation Area of the University of Turin. Since 2022, she has been a certified Social Impact Assessor (Cepas certification) and she has been registered in the national registry of Impact Assessors. She is also a Counselor in Psychosynthesis.

Samuele Coen

External Collaborator

samuele.coen@unito.it

Samuele Coen got both his Bachelor (2017, ‘Lettere Classiche’) and Master’s (2019, ‘Filologia, letteratura e tradizione classica’) degrees at the University of Bologna. Then, he moved to Oxford, where he completed a PhD in Classical Languages and Literature (2020–2024): his thesis, entitled ‘Commenting on Ancient Texts: Interpreters and their Audience in the Graeco-Roman World’ (supervisors: Prof. Gregory Hutchinson and Prof. Daniela Colomo) is focused on ancient exegesis, and offers the first comprehensive study of papyrus commentaries. The results of his research have been published in top-level scholarly journals and have been presented at international conferences.

Federico Giulio Corsi

Junior Research Fellow

federicogiulio.corsi@unito.it

Federico Giulio Corsi received his PhD in History of Ancient Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome in 2021 with a thesis on the epistemology and the science of nature in Diogenes of Oinoanda’s Epicurean inscription. In 2022 he spent a research period at the University of Cologne, where he prepared the publication of his dissertation (Epistemologia e scienza della natura in Diogene di Enoanda, Naples 2022). In 2023, he did a post-Doc research period at the Institut für Altertumskunde of the University of Cologne to study the 25th book of Epicurus’ On Nature. Since January 2024, he has been a Posdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Turin as part of the ERC-CoG APATHES project.

Rosalba Feo

Junior Research Fellow

rosalba.feo@unito.it

Rosalba Feo has her BA from the University of Bologna and her MA from the University of Bologna and Collegio Superiore, where she particularly studied Classical Philology with Proff. Valentina Garulli and Camillo Neri, and dedicated both her BA’s and MA’s thesis to the epigrammatic anthologies preserved on papyri. Her PhD research has focused on the papyrological tradition of the Attidographer Philochorus of Athens, under the supervision of Proff. Luisa Prandi and Holger Essler. This work has resulted in several talks and papers. A draft of a monograph is in progress and scheduled for publication in the series Corpus dei Papiri Storici Greci e Latini. During her Master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral studies she has built considerable research-based expertise on Papyrology, firstly in Oxford, Vienna, London, finally in Naples, where she held a post-doctoral research position (‘borsista di ricerca’) at the Centro Internazionale per lo Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, and she has been taught Herculaneum Papyrology. From November 2023 she is a ERC Research Fellow at the University of Turin.

Leonardo Franchi

External Collaborator

leonardo.franchi@unito.it

Leonardo Franchi obtained his master's degree in History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, where, under the supervision of Prof. Aldo Brancacci, he earned his PhD in Philosophy with a thesis on Parmenides’ fragments B 6 and B 7 Diels-Kranz. He spent several research stints at the Universität Trier (host: Prof. Christian Vassallo), the Universität Freiburg (host: Prof. Angela Ulacco), and the University of Edinburgh (host: Prof. Simon Trépanier). He was also a scholarship holder at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples and is a member of the editorial board of the journal La Cultura. He has published articles and contributions in national and international scholarly journals and volumes. His research areas include pre-Socratic thought and its reception in Platonic, Aristotelian, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic philosophies.

Rosanna Malafronte

Junior Research Fellow

rosanna.malafronte@unito.it

Rosanna Malafronte got her MA degree in Herculaneum Papyrology at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ with a thesis on some unpublished preparatory editions (Illustrazioni) by the 19th-century scholar Giuseppe Maria Parascandolo. As a PhD student at the University of Pisa under the supervision of Prof. Graziano Ranocchia, she is preparing a new critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of PHerc. 1025, probably transmitting a moral work by Philodemus. She has presented posters and talks at national and international conferences and published articles in various scientific journals, like Cronache Ercolanesi and Aegyptus. As a TM of the ERC-APATHES she will prepare a new critical edition of Books 1 and 2 of Chrysippus’ On Providence, respectively transmitted by PHerc. 1421 and PHerc. 1038.

Fabian Ruge

Junior Research Fellow

fabianmoritz.ruge@unito.it

Fabian Ruge obtained his M.A. in philosophy at HU Berlin and his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the Stoic theory of sign and proof at LMU Munich (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy) in 2021. Before joining the APATHES-project in November 2023, he worked as a research associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in ancient philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His research interests centre around ancient logic and epistemology, especially in Aristotle and the Stoa. In the APATHES-project, his main responsibilities are currently the logical and physical sections of Zeno of Citium’s edition and the commentary on the new edition of Chrysippus’ Logical Investigations (PHerc. 307).

Emanuele Zimbardi

Junior Research Fellow

emanuele.zimbardi@unito.it

Emanuele Zimbardi earned in 2020 his PhD in Classical and Byzantine Philology at Sapienza - University of Rome and the Freie Universität Berlin; then, he worked as a research assistant in the ERC project FLOS (University of Venice) for three years. His research interests focus on the textual transmission of classical and patristic literature in Greek, Syriac, and Arabic, on the linguistic interaction of Greek and Oriental languages in the Middle Ages, and on the spreading of Greek culture in Oriental milieu. Since November 2023, Emanuele has been a research assistant in the ERC project APATHES. His contribution to the project concerns mostly the critical editions of Zeno of Citium and of Chrysippus, and the analysis of the Oriental transmission of Stoic fragments and thought.

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