Delfim Ferreira Leão

ORCID: 0000-0002-8107-9165

Delfim Leão is Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and a researcher at the Center for Classical and Humanistic Studies, University of Coimbra. His main areas of interest are ancient history, law and political theory of the Greeks, theatrical pragmatics, and the ancient novel, on which he has published over 200 works in international journals, books and book chapters. He also has a strong interest in open science and scholarly communication. Along with Lautaro R. Lanzillotta, he is the editor of Brill’s Plutarch Studies.

Amongst other functions, he was Director of Coimbra University Press (2011-2021), is the Vice-Rector for Culture and Open Science at Coimbra University (since 2019) and Member of the UNESCO Open Science Advisory Committee. He is also Member of the EOSC (European Open Science Cloud), Task Force on “Research Careers, Recognition and Credit”, and member of the Executive Assembly of OPERAS (ESFRI infrastructure), participating in European projects such as OPERAS-P, TRIPLE, OPERAS-PLUS, PALOMERA.