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PhD projects completed, Habilitations, Honours and Awards
Honours and Awards
2026
Chiara Thumiger
DFG "Eigene Stelle" for her project "Physiological doctrines, literary representations and symbolism of the digestive system in the Greco-Roman world and its heritage"
2025
Roberto Lo Presti
Preis für gute Lehre der Philosophischen Fakultät der HU Berlin
Michiel Meeusen
DFG "Eigene Stelle" for his project "Medical Culture and Learned Society in the High Roman Empire"
2024
DFG award for long-term project "Galen's Commentary on the Hippocratic Aphorisms" (van der Eijk, Asper, Overwien)
Galen of Pergamon (129-216 AD) wrote an extensive commentary on the "Aphorisms" of Hippocrates. The DFG has now approved funding for an interdisciplinary long-term project with a total of five research positions will focus on the first four books of this commentary. The core of the project is a bilingual edition, in which the Arabic translation (made in the 9th century) will be critically edited alongside the Greek text, taking into account all known textual witnesses. Both versions will also be translated into a modern language. On the basis of the edition, further extensive research will be carried out into Galen's practice as a commentator and his position within the commentary literature. The four commentary books will also be edited in digital form in order to evaluate the text and its various versions from a linguistic point of view. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Kassandra Miller
Goodwin Award of Merit for her book Time and Ancient Medicine. See https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/2024-charles-j-goodwin-award-merit
2023
Philip van der Eijk
Elected "Associé étranger" of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France.
PhD projects recently completed
2026
Valeria Beggiato: The Role of Intentio in Augustine’s Account of Time
Elisa Citano: Void in Aristotle’s Physics and the Greek Philosophical Tradition