Currently, I am working on my PhD thesis on cultural stereotypes between Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, funded by the Kone Foundation and the Finnish Institute in Rome. I have a firm background in Greek philology, with a focus in the Koine Greek.

My PhD research focuses on cultural stereotypes between the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West. I study when do the derogatory remarks start to appear between Constantinople and Rome and when did the parties start to see each other as the "Other" and not Roman anymore. 

I have also studied atticist grammarian Phrynichus' views on language. I wrote my Master's thesis on what Phrynichus thought was 'unlearned' use of Greek.