Dalia Pratali Maffei obtained her BA (2016) and MA (2018) in Classics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and later received her PhD title at the University of Cambridge (2023), with a thesis on the dialect of inscribed epigrams, i.e. short poems written on inscriptions. She joined the University of Gent in 2023 as an FWO post-doctoral researcher, with a project on dialect contact between Doric and Koine Greek in the Hellenistic age.