Team

Silvia Di Vincenzo is Associate Professor of History of Medieval Philosophy at Ca' Foscari University of Venice since March 1, 2025. She obtained a double PhD in Philosophy and Arabic Studies from the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (2018). Her research explores how ideas were transmitted from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages across diverse cultural and linguistic contexts, with particular reference to the reception and transformation of Aristotelian logic and metaphysics in the Arabic context. Her methodology combines the conceptual analysis of texts with the study of their material transmission through manuscripts.

Chiara Ghirardo holds a degree in Political Science and International Relations. She has been managing EU-funded projects since 2019, with a strong focus on coordination and impact. In March 2025, she joined the team of the ERC project UnMaP as Project Manager. She brings longstanding expertise in project development, international collaboration, and strategic support for research excellence.

Giovanni Carrera is a researcher specializing in Arabic language and linguistics, philosophy of language, semantic theory, logic, and rhetoric, with a focus on post-classical Islamicate intellectual history. He earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from McGill University (2024) with a dissertation on the emergence and development of semantic theory ("ʿilm al-waḍʿ") from the 14th to the 20th century. His research combines philological and philosophical approaches to the Arabic manuscript tradition, especially scholastic commentaries and glosses, and investigates the intersections of logic, semantics, and philosophy. He has broad experience working with manuscript sources and digital humanities tools for cataloguing and analysis.

Ilyas Harifi is a researcher specializing in metaphysics, Islamic philosophy, and rational theology, with a focus on classical and post-classical Islamic intellectual traditions. He holds a Master’s degree in philosophy, history of philosophy, and phenomenology from Sorbonne Université (2021) and obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from Université Paris-Cité (2026) with a dissertation titled “La choséité transcendante: étude de la conception avicennienne de l’essence de Dieu dans son rapport au kalām” (“Transcendent Thingness: Inquiry into Avicenna’s Conception of God’s Essence in Relation to Kalām”). His research examines the relationship between Avicennian metaphysics and “kalām” theology, based on close reading of Arabic sources and attention to their historical context.

Marco Paggi has been a Full Professor of Structural Mechanics at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, since December 2017. He is the Founding Director of the MUSAM Research Unit (Multi-Scale Analysis of Materials) and of the associated experimental facility, the MUSAM Lab. Previously, he led the ERC Starting Grant 2012 project CA2PVM (‘Multi-scale and multi-physics computational approach to the design and durability of photovoltaic modules,’ 2012–2017) and the ERC Proof of Concept 2016 project PHYSIC (‘Photovoltaics with superior crack resistance,’ 2017-2018). He is currently contributing his expertise to the UnMaP project, which focuses on developing and testing AI algorithms for the analysis of handwritings in Arabic manuscripts.

Angelo Mario Del Grosso is a researcher at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “Antonio Zampolli” of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ILC) in Pisa. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa and earned his Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2015. His research is situated within the field of Digital Humanities, with a particular focus on digital scholarly editions and the computational analysis of historical and literary texts.
He has published extensively and contributed to numerous national and international projects, including GreekIntoArabic (ERC), Saussure’s Manuscripts (PRIN), the Italian Translation of the Babylonian Talmud, and the Digital Edition of Bellini’s Letters, among others. He has served on the board of AIUCD (Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale, the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture) and is actively involved in the scientific boards of Digital Humanities journals and conferences.
Currently, he coordinates the CNR-ILC unit of the ERC project 885222–GreekSchools, dedicated to the edition of Greek texts preserved in the carbonized papyri of Herculaneum. He was also a visiting scholar at the VeDPH Center of Excellence at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Finally, he teaches Text Encoding at the University of Pisa.

Paola Baroni is a Technologist of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) at the Institute for Computational Linguistics "Antonio Zampolli" (CNR-ILC).
She has skills in planning, management and monitoring of research projects; drafting of administrative and technical-scientific documentation; financial reporting; management of audit procedures; Web design, development and management; dissemination. Since 1998 she has been involved in over forty national and international research projects related to standards, language resources and technologies, lexicography, minority languages, digital humanities, language and intercultural education, eContent, eGovernment and eParticipation.