Melina Tamiolaki is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Department of Philology of the University of Crete and Collaborating Faculty Member at IMS/FORTH. She holds a PhD from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (2007). Her monograph, Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques (Paris, Presses Universitaires Paris-Sorbonne, 2010) won the Zappas Award of the Association des Etudes Grecques in 2011. Besides numerous articles, she has also edited and co-edited several collective volumes, of which the most recent are (with Tim Rood), Xenophon’s Anabasis and its Reception  (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter 2022), and Leadership in the Ancient World (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). She is the Principal Investigator of the projects LACRIMALit (https://www.ims.forth.gr/en/project/view?id=219) funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2022-2025) and TALOS-Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences (https://talos-ai4ssh.uoc.gr/), funded by the European Union (2023-2028). From September 2024, she serves as Vice-Rector of Development, International Affairs and Outlook of the University of Crete.