Research interest: manuscript tradition and textual criticism of Attic drama (especially Euripides), archaic lyric poets, Callimachus, Theocritus, greek popular poetry etc.
Financed projects: MIUR-DAAD Joint Mobility Program 2017: Digitizing literary and paraliterary papyri: textual encoding and linguistic annotation (with Holger Essler, Institut für klassische Philologie-Würzburg Universität); digitization of the Greek manuscripts of the 'De Rossi' fund of the Palatine Library of Parma, in collaboration with DUSIC Department; Erasmus+ Call 2020 KA2 Strategic Partnership: Bridging the <gap> in Ancient Writing Cultures: ENhance COmpetences in the Digital Era (ENCODE). Coordinatore: Alice Bencivenni (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna). Partners: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Alice Bencivenni), Università di Parma (Massimo Magnani), Universität Wurzburg (Holger Essler), Universität Hamburg (Pietro Liuzzo), Universitetet i Oslo (Federico Aurora), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Mark Depauw).
Collaboration with Brill's New Jacoby. Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker (FGrHist) IV B, hrsgg. von L. Bossina and S. Schorn (Brill). For the Commentaria et Lexica Graeca in papyris reperta (CLGP), fasc. I.2.5.2. Hypotheseis in Euripidis fabulas, Berlin-Boston (De Gruyter), in preparation.
Current academic responsibilities: secretary of the PhD School of Humanities. Member of the advisory board of the PhD course “Philological, literary, historical, philosophical and artistic sciences”. Member of the UniPr Working Group for lesson times and space allocation (didactics). Member of the UniPr Working Group on Internation Relationships. Member of the Quality Assurance Presidium. Dept. Delegate for Didactics. Dept. Coordinator of the Unit ‘Classics’. Member of the Dept. Board. Dept. Coordinator for the IDEA Project.