User:Perkamenus/Lorenzo Perilli

Lorenzo Perilli is an Italian classicist and academic at the [http://www.uniroma2.it University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’].

He was educated in Classics at the University of Rome (1983-1989), where he also received his PhD in Philosophy. He was awarded several international research grants and prizesSource: [https://cgi.marquiswhoswho.com/OnDemand/Default.aspx?last_name=perilli&first_name=lorenzo Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2011], among them a 2-year grant from the [http://www.avh.de| Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation] ([http://www.uni-muenchen.de University of Munich], Germany, 1996), and the Prize of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage in 2001 See http://www.lincei.it/premi/assegnati_ministro.php for his studies on ancient philosophy and science. In 2007 he won the [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_Bessel-Forschungspreis Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel International Research Award] in Germany, following a nomination by the [http://cmg.bbaw.de/ Corpus Medicorum Graecorum] of the [http://www.bbaw.de Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences] See Berlin-Brandenburg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahrbuch 2007, p. 323f, 424, where he subsequently conducted his research for about one year. In August 2006 he was Research Associate at the [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/histmed Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine] at [http://www.ucl.ac.uk University College London]. His work on ancient empiricism has attracted the attention of the mathematician and essayist Nassim N. Taleb at the time when he was writing his best-selling book The Black Swan. The impact of the highly improbable, New York 2007.

Academic Interests

Perilli’s main fields of research include Ancient Greek medicine (Temple medicine, Hippocrates, Galen, Empiricism), Greek philosophy (Presocratics), classical philology (Textual criticism). He is also recognised as an expert in Humanities computingSee e.g. http://www.itug.de/publikationen.html.

Publications

Perilli’s main publications include

[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2413033W/Filologia_computazionale Filologia computazionale], Rome, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1995
[http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rbph_0035-0818_2001_num_79_1_6061_t1_0298_0000_2 La teoria del vortice nel pensiero antico], Pisa, Pacini 1996
[http://books.google.it/books?id=pHLVfFtZ3wEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=perilli+menodoto&source=bl&ots=v_Cdvh6-Xj&sig=cPsJ7V-4UyLcp33Htg06IuLiw4k&hl=it&ei=mQlRTd3_EYOYOuTExaII&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Menodoto di Nicomedia]. Contributo a una storia galeniana della medicina empirica, München-Leipzig, Saur 2004,
Italian edition of R.B. Onians, [http://www.adelphi.it/libro/9788845914096 The origins of European thought], Cambridge 1954 (Milan, Adelphi, 2nd ed., 1998)
Italian edition and translation of G.E.R. Lloyd and N. Sivin, The Way and the Word. Science and Medicine in Ancient China and Greece, Yale UP 2002 ([http://www.sns.it/en/edizioni/collane/bibliotheca/taologos/ Tao e Logos. Scienza e medicina nell'antichità: Cina e Grecia], Pisa, Edizioni della Normale, 2009)

He contributed many articles to scholarly journals and conference proceedings.

References

External links

[http://www.scuoladifilosofia.it/dottorato/Alumni/lorenzo-perilli Lorenzo Perilli at the University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’ (including cv and list of publications) (in Italian)]
[http://zopeman64.bbaw.de/bbaw/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Artikel.html?id=73 Lorenzo Perilli at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis (including short cv) (in German)]
[http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/7722.html Article by Lorenzo Perilli:] Was Forscher wirklich wollen / What Researchers really want. Abstract: Bureaucratic reform notions and modelling on the wrong examples are jeopardising European universities. A plea for some reflection upon classic strengths and more faith in the up-and-coming generation of academics.

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