Juan Bautista Juan López is a postdoctoral fellow in the Greek Section of the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, working on the Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE). He completed his PhD in Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies at Central European University. His dissertation examined the intellectual network and philosophical thought of the 14th-century Byzantine scholar, Manuel Gabalas. As pre-doctoral research, he collaborated with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and was member of the research team of Estudios sobre tradición, transmisión y recepción de la mitografía griega, from the University of Granada. His current project aims to map the intellectual exchanges of Byzantine scholars during the early Palaiologan period (1280–1350), focusing on epigram authors from the DBBE.