MSc summa cum laude in Ancient Greek Literature, University of Rome. PhD in Philosophy.

2000  – present     
Teaching of History of Ancient Scientific Thought, Ancient Philosophy, Classical Tradition

2013     
Petra Kappert Fellow, Univ. Hamburg, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures

2012     
Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Re-invitation as an Awardee, Univ. Hamburg

1997 – 2011     
Teaching of Humanities computing at the University of Rome LUMSA

2010     
Visiting scholar of the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique, Univ. Zürich

2008 – 2009     
Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Munich, Berlin)

2006     
Research Associate at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London

2003     
CNR "Short-term" grant for research at the Univ. Munich, Germany

2003     
CNR "Short-term" grant for research at the Univ. Utrecht, The Netherlands

2001     
CNR-NATO fellowship for a research stay at the Univ. Munich, Germany

1994 – 2000     
Scientific consultant of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei / Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare in the field of Computer Science and the Humanities

1999     
1-year grant for young researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata

1996 – 1997     
Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Munich, Berlin)

1996     
Grant by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples

1994     
Research grant by the Österreichisches Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung (Vienna)

1991 – 1993     
2-year fellowship at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, for research in the field of Computer Science and the Humanities

1989     
Study grant by the German-Italian Academy of Merano, Italy (Univ. Vienna)

1987     
Study grant by the German-Italian Academy of Merano, Italy ( Univ. Würzburg)

Awards and other activities

2003 – 2012     
Membership in the project of national interest on The transmission of ancient medicine

2007     
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel International Prize, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, after a nomination by the Berlin Academy of Sciences

2006 – present     
Member of the board of the periodical of ancient medicine Galenos

2001     
Prize of the Italian Ministry of Culture, awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

1997     
"G. Borgia" Prize for Philosophy, awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

1988 – 2000     
Co-editor of the periodical of classical studies "Museum Criticum"

Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre in Classics, Mathematics and Philosophy "Forms of Knowledge in the Ancient World".

Lectures at the University of Munich, Göttingen, Paris, Naples, Florence, Pisa, Ferrara, Bologna, Rome, Ancona, Newcastle, Budapest, as well as at many international Conferences.

Aim of the project is an edition with commentary and general study of the fragments of pre- and non-Hippocratic 'physicians' and a selection of texts with a special focus on medical topics, until the beginning of the IVth century BCE. Texts of medical interest interspersed in literary and philosophical texts since the age of Homer, as well as in inscriptions, will also be selected, in order to give a picture as complete as possible. The research will thus focus on the losers in Greek medicine as opposed to canonical texts. A study of the historical, social and institutional background of these authors and texts will parallel the main line of research. Main lines of research include the so-called 'Italic school' and the Physiologoi of the VIth and Vth century BCE, medicine in the archaic literary tradition as well as religious and popular medical practice.

2013     
(Hrsg), Logos. Theorie und Begriffsgeschichte, Darmstadt (2013).

2012     
L. Perilli, D. Taormina (Hrsg.), La filosofia antica. Itinerario storico e testuale, Utet, Torino (2012.

"I presocratici", in: L. Perilli, D. Taormina (Hrsg.) La filosofia antica. Itinerario storico e testuale, Utet, Torino (2012), 80-169.

"A Risky Enterprise: the Aldine Edition of Galen, the Failures of the Editors, and the Shadow of Erasmus of Rotterdam", in: Early Science and Medicine 17, 446-466.

2011     
C. Brockmann, K.-D. Fischer, S. Roselli, L. Perilli, (Hrsg.),Officina Hippocratica. Schriften zu Ehre von Anargyros Anastassiou und Dieter Irmer, Berlin /  New York (2011).

2009     
"Scrivere la medicina. La trascrizione dei miracoli di Asclepio e il Corpus Hippocraticum", in: Ch. Brockmann, W. Brunschön, O. Overwien (Hrsg.), Antike Medizin im Schnittpunkt von Geistes- und Naturwissenschaften, Atti del Convegno internazionale, Berlin /  New York (2009), 75-120.