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I am a historian and epigrapher, currently CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies at Harvard University.
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 written cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.


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 and DPhil in Ancient History. I completed my doctorate in January 2021.
I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice ([https://pric.unive.it/projects/pythiaplus/home PythiaPlus project]), undertaking secondments at 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 2020, I was the Ralegh Radford Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome. In 2021, I am a Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), where I will be carrying out my residency in the fall. Starting November 2021 I will begin a Marie Curie Fellowship at Ca' Foscari University of Venice on my project "PYTHIA+: Machine Learning for ancient epigraphic cultures".
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.
 
* Co-lead of [[Pythia]] –  a deep learning model for the automatic restoration of Greek inscriptions.<br>
* Lead of [https://www.academia.edu/38335343/A_New_Sicilian_Curse_Corpus_A_Blueprint_for_a_Geographical_and_Chronological_Analysis_of_Defixiones_from_Sicily ISicDef] – A MySQL database & digital corpus of Sicilian curse tablets ''(to be migrated to [[I.Sicily]]).'' <br>
* Doctoral thesis title: ''“Breaking boundaries: a study of socio-cultural identities in Archaic and Classical western Sicily”''.


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* [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]
* [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 16:37, 27 December 2021

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), undertaking secondments at 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.

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.

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