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Born in Germany and trained as a classicist in Freiburg and Vienna, I came to the United States in 2003. Before joining the classics department at NYU, I was assistant professor of Greek at Penn State. I have been a Heisenberg fellow (2004) and a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton (2003/4).

My work focuses on two areas: Hellenistic poetry, especially Callimachus, and the literature of ancient Greek science and technology. On Callimachus, I have published a study of his poetological metaphors (Onomata allotria, Stuttgart 1997) and a critical edition of his works (Kallimachos’ Werke, with German translation, Darmstadt 2004). Greek scientific writing has been my subject in Griechische Wissenschaftstexte (Stuttgart 2007). Recent papers have investigated, e.g., archaic Greek law, the impact of Old Comedy on its primary audiences, constructions of authority in Galen, the two mathematics of ancient Greece, and Callimachus’ use of science. Currently I am writing essays on Apollonius Rhodius’ poetology, Callimachus’ geopoetics, and narratives in ancient scientific texts.

Major projects for the coming years are a book on “Writing Science in Antiquity”, an edition and commentary upon a selection of Hippocratic treatises for Cambridge’s ‘Green and Yellows’, and a study of Alexandrian poets and Ptolemaic identity.