Martina Galatello
is a PhD student in Philology and History of the Ancient World at Sapienza Un. of Rome and associated researcher of IFI ÖAW
Martina Galatello was born in Catania in 1992. She graduated in Oriental Studies: Egypt, Near and Middle East with honours at the University of Pisa in 2018. After a traineeship at the Grecque et Orient chrétien section of the Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes (IRHT-CHRS) of Paris, she worked on the palaeography of Turfan fragments in Syriac script in the FWF Stand-Alone project ‘Scribal Habits. A case study from Christian Medieval Central Asia’ (PI Dr.Chiara Barbati) in the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (IFI-ÖAW) in Vienna.
She started a PhD in Philology and History of the Ancient World at Sapienza University of Rome in 2019. Her project deals with the “Book of Animals” by Bar ʿEbroyo (d. 1286).
She is also an associated researcher of the Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI-ÖAW), and a member of Syriaca and Société d'études syriaques (SES).