… received his PhD in Classical Philology from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa with a thesis on ancient Greek rhetoric, entitled ‘Isocrates' Philippus. Introduction, translation, and commentary’. His research interests include ancient Greek and Latin literature, digital long-term preservation, semantic technologies, and natural language processing.

At the ACDH, Massimiliano is part of the research unit DH Research & Infrastructure. He is currently involved in the EU-funded ATRIUM project, which aims to facilitate digital methods and improve data and service interoperability in archaeology and other disciplines. He is the main responsible for the Vocabs service at ACDH and DARIAH-EU, and is part of the team behind ARCHE (A Resource Centre for the Humanities). He also provides additional support to the OpenAtlas team regarding the interface with ARCHE and digital archiving questions.

Massimiliano is passionate about making digital methods and research results accessible to a wider audience. Among other activities, he participates in the KinderUni initiative organized by the University of Vienna and is an editor for the English version of the Programming Historian.

Previously, he participated in the academic graffiti project INDIGO (project leader: Geert J. Verhoeven), which aimed to document and analyze 13km of contemporary graffiti on the Danube Canal in Vienna, and in the project RepoLandscape (PI: Matej Ďurčo), for the consolidation and harmonization of the Austrian repository landscape.