| 2023 | “Konzeptuelle Metapherntheorie und griechische Vorstellungen von Wiedergeburt vor Platon”, Mittelrheinisches Symposion, Trier (7–8 Juli) |
| 2023 | “Metapher als Forschungsmethode in den antiken Naturwissenschaften, Metaphern in Wissenschaft und Kommunikation, WissKom Academy, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (9 Maerz) |
| 2022 | “Change of Form: Personal Survival and Continuity of Self in Empedocles’ Concept of Rebirth”, International Association for Presocratic Studies, 7th Biennial Conference (IAPS 7), European Cultural Centre, Delphi (27 Juni–1 Juli) |
| 2022 | Chair of the Podium Discussion Eine Frage des Geschlechtes? Chancengleichheit in der Akademie, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz (29 April) |
| 2021 | “Rebirth and Transformation: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and early beliefs in Metempsychosis”, International Conference in Classics & Ancient History, Coimbra (22–25 Juni) |
| 2021 | “Neue Perspektiven auf den Straßburger Empedokles”, University of Jena (2 Juli) |
| 07.2020 | "Empedocles' fr. 133 and 134, Digitaler Workshop "Titubanti Testi. Binomio di Lettura./ Wavering Texts: Paired Readings", Universiteit Gent. |
| 01.2020 | "The notion of Sophia beyond Philosophy, Interdisciplinary and international conference "Beyond Modern Science I: Basic Terms of Ancient Scholary Knowledge and Practices", JGU Mainz. |
| 06.2019 | "Moral Implications in Empedocles’ Metaphor of the Cosmic Conflict", Fifth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece (Fonte Aretusa Organization), Exedra Mediterranean Center in Siracusa/June 12-15, 2019. |
| 06.2019 | "Tba". Journée d’études “La métaphore dans les écrits techniques de l’Antiquité”. Centre Jean Pépin, Paris/14 June 2019. |
| 02.2019 | "The Material Dimension of Psychological Agents: Empedocles’ Bodily Mind and Transmigrating Soul", 13th London Ancient Science Conference 2019, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, University of London/11-15 February 2019. |
| 06.2018 | "The Byzantine Scholia to Aristotle and Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle", International Association for Presocratic Studies/Sixth Biennial Conference (IAPS 6), European Cultural Centre of Delphi in Greece/25-29 June 2018. |
| 06.2018 | "The Metaphor Domain of War in the Philosophy of Heraclitus and Empedocles", Poetry and Early Greek Philosophy, University College London/21-22 June 2018. |
| 06.2018 | "The Chronography of Empedocles’ Cosmic Cycle", Time and Chronology in Creation Narratives, University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter/7-9 June 2018. |
| 06.2018 | "Metaphors for the Mind in Early Greek Philosophy", Figuration as a Line of Interpretation—International Conference/Berlin/1-2 June 2018. |
| 01.2018 | "The Interaction between Mind and Soul in Empedocles’ Philosophy", 2018 SCS Annual Meeting, Boston, Ma/4-7 January 2018. |
| 12.2017 | "The Pythagorean symbola and early Greek Philosophy", Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium/8 December 2017. |
| 09.2017 | "Empedocles’ symmetry revisited", University of Pennsylvania/Colloquia in Classical Studies/28 September 2017. |
| 06.2017 | "Metaphor and Scientific Discourse: a Mode of Argumentation in Early Greek Philosophy" GAnPh/Humboldt University of Berlin/9-10 June 2017. |
| 03.2017 | "Deliberate Metaphor Use in Parmenides’ Two Ways of Enquiry", University of Amsterdam/Metaphor Lab/28 March 2017. |
| 01.2017 | "Body, Mind and Transmigrating Soul in Empedocles’ Theory of Knowledge Acquisition" Philosophical Colloquium: Philosophy, Science and the Sciences in Greek, Roman and Arabic Thought /Humboldt University of Berlin/23 January 2017. |
| 12.2016 | "'A path for understanding'. Journey-Metaphors in pre-Socratic Theories of Knowledge" Berlin International Conference ‘Paths of Knowledge in Antiquity’/Excellence Cluster Topoi/Humboldt University of Berlin/1-2 December 2016. |
| 11.2016 | "Daimones and Souls in Empedocles’ philosophy: between Pythagoras and Plato/Daimones und Seelen in der Philosophie des Empedokles: zwischen Pythagoras und Platon", Forschungskolloquium der Gräzistik/Free University of Berlin/22 November 2016. |
| 07.2016 | "Die Katabasis von Empedokles und seine Naturphilosophie", Forschungskolloquium der Klassischen Gräzistik zum Aristotelesjahr, Free University of Berlin/13 July 2016. |
| 07.2016 | "Ancient Greek Medical Metaphors", International Conference ‘The premeditated Path: Deliberate Metaphor in Ancient and Modern Texts’/Excellence Cluster Topoi/7-8 July 2016. |
| 07.2016 | "The Pythagorean symbola", Forschungskolloquiums der Gräzistik, Humboldt University Berlin/4 July 2016. |
| 11.2015 | "Paths of Wisdom: Some Pre-Socratic Metaphors to Choose the Truth and a Better Life" ‘Metaphors we choose by’: A Workshop in the Study of Metaphors in Ancient and Medieval Texts/Excellence Cluster Topoi/Berlin Humboldt University/6-7 Nov. 2015. |
| 09.2014 | "The new Empedocles in the Strasbourg Papyrus: a world of Strife?", VI Jornadas de Papirología/Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC)/Fundación Pastor De Estudios Clásicos/ Universidad Complutense de Madrid/11-12 Sept. 2014. |
| 04.2014 | "Oberseminar “Eleatismus: Parmenides und seine Nachfolgen”/Fakultät für Philosophie/Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/23 April 2014. |
| 06.2013 | "Aristotle on Empedocles (with P. Adamson): Forschungsseminar “On Aristotle’s Metaphysics B”/Munich School of Ancient Philosophy/Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/4 June 2013. |
| 07.2012 | "Notes on Vojtech Hladky’s analysis of De Mundo, ch. 7, Workshop on Ps.-Aristotle’s De Mundo, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich/3-4 July 2012. |
| 05.2012 | "Il papiro di Strasburgo e la doppia zoogonia", 4th Conference of Papyrology-50 Years since the Discovery of the Derveni Papyrus (1962-2012)/Universidad de Salamanca/17-19 May 2012. |
| 04.2011 | "The proem of Empedocles’ Physika: towards a new reconstruction", Graduate Conference ‘Myth and Literature in Ancient Philosophy’/University of Cambridge/15-16 April 2011. |
| 03.2011 | "Esperienza e Conoscenza nel proemio dei Physika di Empedocle", Paris/Pisa Graduate Exchange in Ancient Greek, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa/24-25 March 2011. |
| 03.2010 | "Empedocle: stato della Ricerca", Advanced Research Seminar on Greek Literature/Archives Louis Gernet et Jean-Pierre Vernant/University of Pisa/11 March 2010. |
| 11.2008 | "Sanchuniathon e l’orfismo: elementi orientali nel pensiero cosmogonico Greco", Recherches doctorales en littérature grecque, University of Pisa/Faculty of Classics/20-21 Nov. 2008. |