Christian Vassallo studied Classics at the University of Naples ‘Federico II’, where he obtained his PhD in Ancient Philosophy. After several research stays in Germany (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitätHeidelberg) and advanced courses in papyrology and palaeography in Italy and abroad, he has been for five years Team Member of the European Project ERC-Starting Grant 241184-PHerc (Interactive Edition and Interpretation of Various Works by Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers Surviving at Herculaneum); Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for the European Lexicon and History of Ideas of the National Research Council (CNR-ILIESI) in Rome; Principal Investigator and Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Trier with a DFG research project on the Epicurean tradition of thePresocratic philosophers (Die Vorsokratiker in den Herkulanensischen Papyri); Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Chair of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA); Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-Award and Gastprofessor für Philosophie der Antike at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. He is currently Principal Investigator of the EU Project ERC-101086695-APATHES (Assessing Philosophical Authors and Texts from Herculaneum and elsewhere on Early Stoicism: Insights into ancient logic, physics and ethics towards a new von Arnim*). His main research interestsconcern philosophical papyrology (in particular the Herculaneum papyri), Presocratic philosophy and doxography, Platonism and Stoicism, and the reception of Greek thought into modern and contemporary philosophy.
