User:TheaSommerschield

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice working on my PythiaPlus project.

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. 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.

"Computers aren't the thing, they're the thing that gets us to the thing" (J. MacMillan).

Find me on:

• thea {dot} sommerschield {at} gmail {dot} com
• Academia.edu
• GitHub
• Google Scholar
• Twitter
• a Mediterranean island with good internet connection.