is Professor for Classical Philology and the Classical Tradition, from 2014-2016 he was vice president for international affairs at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He works in fields such as: poetics and theory of Latin literature, dialogue literature – both from antiquity to the early modern period, literature and culture in the late antique and early middle ages, early Christian literature, humanistic concepts of nation, and Cicero’s philosophical writings.