Members

Bio

Han is the W.W. Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has published widely on topics in Greco-Roman philosophy and intellectual history. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). His most recent book is a new translation of Eunapius’ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (Loeb) and he is preparing a monograph on ancient self-consolation.

Research Interests

• Ancient philosophy (physics, epistemology)
• Philosophical exegesis and commentary
• Ancient science and medicine
• Aristotle’s school (early students, later reception)
• Grief, illness, pain
• Medical ethics
• Censorship
• History of ideas esp. enduring questions around human responses to life’s caprices

Bio

Tatiana was Mary and Moses Finley Research Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge before taking up a lectureship in Classics at the Australian National University.

She is the author of Technologies of the Marvellous in Ancient Greek Religion (2025, CUP) and co-editor of Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity (2024, OUP).

Research Interests

• Ancient mechanics
• Hero of Alexandria
• Ancient automata
• Science and religion in Greco-Roman worlds
• Slavery and technology in Greco-Roman worlds
• Humans and machines in Greco-Roman worlds
• The history of innovation
• Technology and wonder

Bio

Tom is Lecturer in Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne.

He writes on the transmission of science, philosophy, and literary culture in Bronze and Iron Age Afroeurasia, with a focus on Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, and India.

Research Interests

• Cosmology
• Astronomy and divination
• Time-keeping
• Writing, institutions and professionalization in antiquity
• Historical materialism
• Aristotle

Bio

Emily is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her major interests are (1) technē and (2) women in Greek philosophy (and, naturally, all combinations thereof). Her first book, tentatively entitled Philosophy Among Professionals: Plato on Techne, is under contract with Cambridge UP. )

Research Interests

• Plato
• technē
• Expertise
• Know-how in contemporary epistemology

Bio

Anna-Sophie is a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science of the Australian National University (ANU) and the Head of the POPSICULE, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub.

Her latest books include “Women Scientists in American Television Comedy: Beakers, Big Bangs and Broken Hearts” (2025, co-authored) and “Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics” (2024, co-edited).

Research Interests

• Cultural meanings of science
• History of (violent) clowns and mad scientists
• Science and humour
• Interface between science and (public) art
• Environmental knowledge in pop culture

Bio

Estelle is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the ANU. Previously she has been a Lecturer in Classics at UQ, and has held several postdocs in Greece and the UK.

She is the author of Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts (2023, OUP), and a co-editor of the forthcoming Terraqueous Topographies in Postclassical Greece Literature.

Research Interests

• Futurism 
• Temporality
• Geography 
• Travel
• Ecocriticism

Bio

Marko Vitas is an Associate Lecturer in Classics at the Australian National University, and has been an Associate Member of the CNRS team Orient et Méditerranée – Mondes Semitiques. His current book project focuses on mythology of destruction in Ancient Mesopotamian and Greek sources. His recent publications can be accessed here. 

Research Interests

• Intellectual exchange in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
• History of Ideas
• Ancient Medicine (Mesopotamian and Greek pre-Hippocratic)
• Poetics of Ancient Astronomy; Aratus
• Mythology; Myth of destruction