Baukje van den Berg is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University (Vienna). She obtained a PhD in Ancient Greek Literature from the University of Amsterdam in 2016, held postdoctoral positions at the University of Silesia in Katowice and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and was a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks in 2020. Her main research interests are Byzantine scholarship, Byzantine education, and the role of ancient literature in Byzantine
culture.