Principal Investigator
Antonella Ghignoli is Full Professor of Paleography at Sapienza–University of Rome, after having been Assistant Professor of Latin Palaeography, Codicology and Diplomatics at the Universities of Viterbo-La Tuscia and Florence. She has authored several books and articles, and some are downloadable here. Her main fields of interest include, among others, documentary writings from late antiquity to the early Middle Ages, charters of rulers and literacy in early medieval Europe, textual criticism and critical edition of documentary records, methodology of history and research methodologies in palaeography and diplomatics.
E-mail: antonella.ghignoli at uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Latin palaeography
- Diplomatics (late antique and early medieval)
- Literacy and written culture in late antiquity and early middle ages
Leaders of the NOTAE Detached Research Unit
Operating at Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica Gestionale “Antonio Ruberti”
Prof. Tiziana Catarci has main research interests in theoretical and user oriented aspects of information access, user interfaces, usability, digital libraries, e-learning, cooperative information systems, and data management. She has been for several years the vice-rector of Sapienza for ICT. His current h-index is 39.
E-mail: catarci at diag.uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Coordination of the user interaction design process for the NOTAE system
- Data visualization techniques
Prof. Massimo Mecella is a full professor in Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza; he is conducting research in the fields of software architectures, information systems, distributed middleware and service oriented computing, mobile and pervasive computing, process management, data and process mining, big data analytics, advanced interfaces and human-computer interaction, focusing on smart applications, environments and communities. He is author of about 170 papers (h-index = 36). He has been/is currently involved in several European and Italian research projects. He regularly acts as EC reviewer for project proposals and projects, and expert of EIT – European Institute for Innovation and Technology.
E-mail: mecella at diag.uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Analysis and design of the NOTAE software system
- Software architecture of the NOTAE system
Assistant Professors
Dr. Francesco Leotta (PhD in Engineering in Computer Science, currently assistant professor at DIAG) has main research interests in smart environements and cyber-physical systems, including cultural heritage sites. He focuses in particular on the application of machine learning and data mining techniques in such scenarios. During his research activity, he has been collaborating to different EU research projects. His current h-index is 12.
E-mail: leotta at diag.uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Methods, techniques and development of the NOTAE system
- Pattern mining applied to NOTAE symbol repository
- Computer vision applied to graphic symbols
- Data management techniques
- Advanced user interfaces
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Livia Briasco obtained her Bachelor’s degree in “History, Anthropology, History of Religions” with a thesis in latin diplomatics at La Sapienza Università di Roma (2015) and then her Master’s degree in “Historical sciences: medieval history and palaeography” at the same university (2017) with a thesis in greek palaeography. For her merits through the Master’s program, she was awarded the title of “Laueato eccellente” from La Sapienza (2018). In 2021 she obtained her PhD in greek paleography defending a dissertation entitled “La produzione libraria di lusso nella piena età comnena (1100-1180): tre case-studies tra sperimentazione e mimesi grafica”. For this research, in 2019-2020 she was awarded a Dissertation Grant from the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at the Hellenic College Holy Cross (Brookline, Massachusetts). Since 2020 she has been enrolled in a second level master’s degree in Library Science at the Vatican School of Library Science; her graduation is scheduled for 2022.
Email: livia.briasco at uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Greek and Latin Paleography
- Diplomatics
- Medieval History
Dr. Aneta Skalec. After graduating both in archaeology with specialisation in papyrology and epigraphy and in law with specialisation in Roman and ancient laws at the University of Warsaw (2010) she obtained her PhD in Juridical Papyrology at the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw by defending her thesis entitled Prawo sąsiedzkie w świetle papirusów z Egiptu grecko-rzymskiego (The neighbourhood law in the light of the papyri from Greco-Roman Egypt) (2016). Since 2015 she is a coordinator of the Polish-Italian cooperation within the Warsaw Mummy Project and since 2017 a member of the Gebelein Archaeological Project. From 2017 to 2019 she was an Associated Professor in Roman Law at the Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. She is the author of several papers in papyrology and Egyptology, focusing on the questions that found their reflection both in papyrological and archeological sources.
E-mail: aneta.skalec@uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Juridical papyrology
- Documentary papyrology
- History of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Dr. Lucia C. Colella. After graduating in ‘Filologia, letterature e civiltà del mondo antico’ at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ (2013), she obtained her PhD in Roman History at the same University with a dissertation on the Town Council of Arsinoe in the 3rd century AD (2019). She was a postdoctoral fellow in the project PLATINUM, ERC StG 2014 636983 (2019–2022), within which she has studied Latin and Graeco-Latin legal documents from Roman Egypt, with a focus on wills. She has worked on published and unpublished papyri, especially on documents from the Roman era. Her research interests involve administration and everyday life in Egypt.
E-mail: luciaconsuelo.colella@uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Roman History
- Papyrology
- History of Roman Law
- Juridical Papyrology
Dr. Marta Marucci is an early-career researcher in Digital Humanities. She studied Classics at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and then obtained her PhD at the University of Basilicata (2022). Her PhD thesis consists in a new critical edition with Italian translation and commentary of Theodoridas of Syracuse’ Epigrams. In 2022 she was awarded a scholarship from ‘Istituto italiano per la storia antica’ of Rome, which aimed to create and insert into the Epigraphic Database Roma (http://www.edr-edr.it) several digital editions of Greek inscriptions found in Rome. Her fields of research include Textual Criticism and Digital Humanities.
E-mail: marta.marucci@uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Digital Humanities
- Philology
- Epigraphy
Affiliated Senior Researchers and Scholars, Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD candidates
Prof. Teresa De Robertis
Full Professor in Palaeography at the University of Florence. Member of the Bureau of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine. The list of her publications and her CV are available here.
Email: teresa.derobertis at unifi.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Latin Palaeography
- Ancient and New Roman Cursive
Prof. Stefano Zamponi
Emeritus in Palaeography at the University of Florence. Honorary President of the “Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio“. The list of his publication and his CV are available here.
Email: stefano.zamponi at Unifi.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Latin Palaeography
- Ancient and New Roman Cursive
- Latin Abbreviations
Prof. Lucio Del Corso
Associate Professor in Papyrology at University of Salerno. The list of his publications, his curriculum vitae and research projects are available here. Several publications are downloadable on his Academia.edu account. Prof. Del Corso is the PI of the project Greek and Latin Literary Papyri from Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Fayum (4th BC- 7th AD): Texts, Contetxs, Readers (PRIN 2017), one of the related initiatives of the ERC project NOTAE. He is also member of the Scientific Board of the Book Series Graphic Symbols, Written Words (Publisher: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome), which hosts the main outputs of the project NOTAE, among other research monographs on pragmatic literacy and written culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.
Key aspects of activity:
- Greek Papyrology
- Greek Epigraphy
- Ancient History
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Dr. Anna Monte joined the ERC project NOTAE as official Team member (Postdoctoral Researcher) from 01.07.2019 until 28.02.2022. She is currently Assistant Professor in Papyrology at the University of Udine (Dipartimento di Studi umanistici e del Patrimonio Culturale), after being in the same University Postdoctoral Researcher from 01.03.2022 to 15.12.2022 . She graduated in Classics at the Università degli Studi di Udine with a thesis in Papyrology and she worked from 2010 until 2017 as Research Assistant at the digitization project of the Berlin Papyrus Collection (Berliner Papyrusdatenbank). She obtained her PhD degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 2018, discussing a thesis focused on the edition of hitherto unpublished Greek papyri from the Berlin Collection (documents, literary and medical texts). She is deeply interested in exploring linguistic and material issues from everyday-life of Greco-Roman-Byzantine Egypt, especially by editing and analyzing documentary and medical papyri.
Email: anna.monte at uniud.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Documentary papyrology
- History of Roman and Byzantine Egypt
- History of Ancient Medicine
Dr. Nina Sietis joined the ERC project NOTAE as official Team member (Postdoctoral Researcher) from 01.07.2018 until 31.12.2021. Since 01.01.2022 she is Assistant Professor in Palaeography at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. After graduating in ‘Filologia, Letterature e Storia del Mondo Antico’ at Sapienza Università di Roma (2013) with a dissertation focussing on greek palaeography, she obtained her PhD at the same University by defending a thesis entitled “La produzione manoscritta nei milieux studiti tra i secoli IX e X” (2016). During her PhD she joined the team directed by prof. Daniele Bianconi for the FIRB project ‘Codices Graeci Antiquiores’. In 2016 she was awarded a scholarship for the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and then worked together with the team of the ‘Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams’ (http://www.dbbe.ugent.be), supervised by prof. Kristoffel Demoen. She is member of the ‘Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti.
Email: nina.sietis at unicas.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Greek Paleography
- Documentary papyrology
- Codicology
Dr. Maria Boccuzzi joined the ERC project NOTAE as official Team member (Postdoctoral Researcher) from 01.07.2019 until 31.12.2022 and currently works at the State Archive of Rome. After graduating in ‘Beni archivistici e librari’ at University of Bari (2013) she obtained her PhD in Palaeography at the same University by defending a thesis entitled I fondamenti materiali della tradizione testuale di Cipriano: la tarda antichità (2017). She collaborated on the project IMAI ‘Inscriptiones Medii Aevi Italiae’ (Research Unit of Bari, directed by prof. Paolo Fioretti). She is member of the ‘Associazione Italiana dei Paleografi e Diplomatisti’ since 2019 and currently member of the Board of the Association. She is the author of some papers in latin palaeography, focusing on the so called African uncial script, on the female written culture in late antiquity, and on the manuscript transmission of Cyprian’s works.
E-mail: mireboccuzzi at gmail.com
Key aspects of activity:
- Latin palaeography (Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages)
- Late Antique literacy
Dr. Zahra Ziran. After graduating in ‘Information Engineering’ at the University of Guilan (2012) with a dissertation focusing on forecasting undesirable weather conditions using Data Mining techniques, she obtained her PhD at the University of Florence(DINFO) by defending a thesis entitled “Deep learning-based object detection models applied to document images” (2020). During her PhD, she worked at AI Lab under the supervision of Prof.Simone Marinai. Her field of research interest is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Within AI, she is interested in problems related to Document Analysis , machine learning, data mining, and graph neural network. She joined the ERC project NOTAE as official Team member (Postdoctoral Researcher) from 01.07.2020 until 31.08.2022.
Email: zahra.ziran at uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Document Image Analysis
- Historical Text Recognition and classification
- Deep learning
Dr. Lauren S. Ferro is Ph.D. student of Interaction Design at Sapienza University of Rome. She is currently undertaking her second Ph.D. on cybersecurity in the school of Engineering and Information Technology at Sapienza University of Rome. Her first Ph.D. was completed at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Melbourne, Australia and focused on player profiling and modeling. She is an active researcher in the area of HCI and user-centered design and has authored several books on game development.
Email: lauren.ferro at uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human Factors
- Cybersecurity
- User-Centered Design
- Game and Gamification design and development
Eleonora Bernasconi graduated in Management Engineering at the Sapienza Università di Roma. In 2018 she dealt with Deep Learning and Computer Vision at the Italian Institute of Statistics. In 2019 started her Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Control, and Management Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome. Her research is focused on knowledge extraction and image processing applied to the challenging field of Cultural Heritage.
Email: mailto:bernasconi@diag.uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Definition and exploration of the NOTAE Knowledge Graph
- Data analytics in NOTAE
Silvestro Veneruso is a Ph.D. student in Engineering in Computer Science at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” of Sapienza University or Rome. His research is mainly focused on Smart Space Automation, providing in particular solution that are the crossroad between artificial intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction.
Email: veneruso at diag.uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Analysis and Design of the NOTAE system
- SW Architecture of the NOTAE system
- SW Development of the NOTAE system
Alessandra Tommasini earned a Bachelor’s degree in Management Engineering in 2021 at Sapienza University of Rome. She is currently a Master student in Engineering in Computer Science at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti” of Sapienza University of Rome.
Email: tommasini.1883449 at studenti.uniroma1.it
Key aspects of activity:
- Web Design of the NOTAE system (adjunct)
Former Postdoctoral Researchers and Team members
2018-2019
Dr. Loreleï Vanderheyden. Key aspects of activity: Documentary papyrology; History of Late Antique Egypt; Coptic and Greek papyrology.
Dr. Andrea Antonio Verardi. Key aspects of activity: Late Antiquity and Early Medieval History; Church History
Former affiliated collaborators
2020-2021
Laura Cardinale, undergraduate in “Historical Sciences” (Master degree, curriculum in Medieval History) at Sapienza University of Rome. Key aspects of activity: updating and processing of the bibliographical data of the NOTAE project.