I studied Near Eastern Studies at the University of Vienna for my bachelor's degree. I completed my master’s degree in Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Vienna in January of this year (2021) with a master’s thesis entitled “The Snake Omens in the Mesopotamian Divinatory Series Šumma ālu (Tablets 22-24).” This master’s thesis was written between 2018 and 2020 as part of the FWF-funded project Bestiarium Mesopotamicum. Tieromina im Alten Mesopotamien under the direction of Assoz.-Prof. Nicla De Zorzi, who was also the supervisor of the thesis.

I am currently working on my doctoral thesis with the title "Meaning Construction and Text Development Through Repetition, Parallelism, and Analogy in Mesopotamian Magic Texts" as part of the project “Repetition, Parallelism and Creativity: An Inquiry into the Construction of Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature and Erudition” (REPAC), directed by Assoz.-Prof. Nicla De Zorzi and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The project REPAC investigates repetition and parallelism as structuring and meaning-constructing devices in Akkadian literature and scholarly writing, aiming to demonstrate their grounding in a culture-specific “analogical hermeneutics” which pervades the core texts of Ancient Mesopotamian culture. My dissertation, which is part of work package 3, focuses on magic texts, particularly anti-witchcraft compositions, and investigates the use of variant repetition and analogical structuring in these texts.