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I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice working on my [https://pric.unive.it/projects/pythiaplus/home PythiaPlus] project.
I am a historian and epigrapher, my research uses machine learning to study the epigraphic cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.  


My research uses machine learning to study the epigraphic cultures of the Mediterranean world, and I also work on the history and inscriptions of ancient Sicily.
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice ([https://pric.unive.it/projects/pythiaplus/home PythiaPlus project]), collaborating with Google Deepmind (London), AUEB and the IMSI Athena Research Centre (Athens). In 2021-2022, I am a CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Harvard University; in 2022-2023 I am part of the second cohort of Google Cloud Research Innovators.
Since obtaining my DPhil in Ancient History (University of Oxford) in 2021, I have held fellowships at the British School at Rome, Harvard's Centre for Hellenic Studies, and Google Cloud. In 2024 I will be returning to the UK for a Leverhulme EC Fellowship at the University of Nottingham.


I co-led the Pythia (2019) and Ithaca (2022) projects (the latter featured on the cover of the scientific journal ''Nature''), and am publishing the new inscriptions from Himera, Sicily. I live in Venice, but I'm often out on the Mediterranean trail.
I did my BA in Classics at the University of Pavia and a parallel MA in Humanities at the School for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia. I then moved to Oxford for my MSt in Greek History. I completed my DPhil in Ancient History at the University of Oxford in January 2021. In 2020, I was the Ralegh Radford Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome.


"Computers aren't the thing, they're the thing that gets us to the thing" (J. MacMillan).
I am co-lead and co-first author of the [[Pythia]] (2019) and [[Ithaca]] (2022) projects.


Find me on:
Find me on:
* thea {dot} sommerschield {at} gmail {dot} com
* thea {dot} sommerschield {at} classics {dot} ox {dot} ac {dot} uk
* thea {at} sommerschield {dot} it
* [https://oxford.academia.edu/TheaSommerschield Academia.edu]
* [https://oxford.academia.edu/TheaSommerschield Academia.edu]
* [https://github.com/sommerschield GitHub]
* [https://github.com/sommerschield GitHub]
* [https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=dUifv5oAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
* [https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=dUifv5oAAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar]
* [https://twitter.com/TSommerschield Twitter]
* [https://twitter.com/TSommerschield Twitter]
* [https://pric.unive.it/projects/pythiaplus/home PythiaPlus]
* [https://www.unive.it/data/persone/25105303 UniVe Profile]
* [https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6965-8105 ORCiD]
* a Mediterranean island with good internet connection.
* a Mediterranean island with good internet connection.

Revision as of 12:18, 11 September 2023

I am a historian and epigrapher, my research uses machine learning to study the epigraphic cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice (PythiaPlus project), collaborating with Google Deepmind (London), AUEB and the IMSI Athena Research Centre (Athens). In 2021-2022, I am a CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Harvard University; in 2022-2023 I am part of the second cohort of Google Cloud Research Innovators.

I did my BA in Classics at the University of Pavia and a parallel MA in Humanities at the School for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia. I then moved to Oxford for my MSt in Greek History. I completed my DPhil in Ancient History at the University of Oxford in January 2021. In 2020, I was the Ralegh Radford Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome.

I am co-lead and co-first author of the Pythia (2019) and Ithaca (2022) projects.

Find me on:

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