Summary
Monica Berti is a Project Leader and digital classicist with 16 years of experience bridging ancient Mediterranean scholarship and Digital Humanities practice. Based in Leipzig, she leads projects in Greek history, epigraphy, papyrology and EpiDoc/TEI workflows, translating fragmentary texts and inscriptions into interoperable digital resources. Her career combines sustained academic roles across Italy, the US and Germany—including teaching at Tufts and research with the Perseus Project—with leadership of collaborative initiatives like Digital Athenaeus and DFHG. Trained with a PhD in Classics and a summa cum laude Laurea, she brings rare technical fluency in markup-driven publishing and text-reuse analysis to traditional philology. Colleagues value her for turning complex ancient evidence into reusable digital artifacts that support broader scholarly networks.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Classico "Istituto Sociale", Torino
PhD, Classics, PhD, Classics at Università degli Studi di Genova
Laurea (summa cum laude), Classics, Laurea (summa cum laude), Classics at Università degli Studi di Torino
English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Italian