Martina Filosa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Cologne
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolMartina Filosa is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne with eight years of experience specializing in Byzantine sigillography, prosopography, and digital humanities. She leads and contributes to multi-year projects building sustainable digital infrastructures for research-based teaching and developing new methodologies to unlock the historical value of seals. Trained across European institutions in Byzantine studies, archaeology of premodern economies, and digital text encoding, she blends deep philological expertise with practical digital-tooling skills. Her work bridges traditional scholarship and open, reproducible research workflows, evidenced by activity connected to the SigiDoc community. Based in Cologne, she brings a rare combination of hands-on archival experience and project-level coordination across international, funded collaborations. Colleagues note her knack for translating dense primary sources into interoperable datasets that serve both historians and computational analyses.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Classical and Ancient Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Classical and Ancient Studies at Università degli Studi di BariDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Archäologie vormoderner Wirtschaftsräume, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Archäologie vormoderner Wirtschaftsräume at University of CologneDigital Humanities (Text encoding text alignment and treebanking), Digital Humanities (Text encoding text alignment and treebanking) at Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiÄgyptologie, Ägyptologie at The University of BonnByzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at University of BirminghamMaturità Classica - Internazionale, Maturità Classica - Internazionale at Liceo Classico Internazionale Socrate
Italian, French, modern greek, byzantine greek, Spanish, portugese, Latin, coptic, German
Github Skills (9)
xml10
indices10
normalization9
frontend8
visualization8
xml-document8
stylesheets7
database3
postgresql2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SigiDoc/SigiDoc
Jul 2021 - Feb 2023
SigiDoc 1.0 - The XML-based and EpiDoc-compliant encoding standard for the scholarly edition of Byzantine lead seals and coin-like objects. Newest developments in the framework of the DFG-ANR project DigiByzSeal "Unlocking the Hidden Value of Seals: New Methodologies for Historical Research in Byzantine Studies" (https://uni.koeln/BLX43)
Contributions:1 review, 149 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
xmlefesepidocprosopographybyzantine-seals
byzantinistik-koeln/EFES-SigiDoc-feind
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
EFES (EpiDoc Front End Services) is a custom and readily customizable platform for publication and search/indexing of EpiDoc files, based on the Kiln platform
Contributions:14 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 5 months
frontend
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