Research
My interests lie in the textual transmission, translation and interpretation of ancient medical texts. Since 1999, I have been working on Galen, Pseudo-Galenic texts, medical rhetoric and pharmacology. On occasion, I also contribute studies on the reception of medical texts from late antiquity to the Renaissance. I have also studied ancient theories of rhetoric and Hermogenes鈥� spurious Progymnasmata (with Prof. Mike Edwards). My doctoral thesis (published in 2009, see below) has won me two national awards (Prix Lantier 2010; Prix Raymond Weil 2010) and international recognition.
As a Wellcome Trust University Award Holder (2013-2018), I now run a project on 鈥楳edical Prognosis in Late Antiquity鈥�. It involves the first critical edition of five texts from the Galenic corpus devoted to various aspects of diagnostic and prognostic, and a monograph on medical prognostic in late antiquity.
For more information on my past and present work, see and .