Kyriaki Giannikou holds a Bachelor's degree in Philology, specialising in Classics, obtained at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2020). She obtained her Master's degree in Classics and Ancient Civilisations at Leiden University (2022), under the supervision of Prof.Dr.C.C. de Jonge, where she also received valuable training in documentary Papyrology from Prof.Dr.F.A.J. Hoogendjik. After graduating, she focused on training opportunities in Digital Classics and Digital Papyrology. Shortly after, she contributed to the ERC Project 'Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation' (EVWRIT). Her contribution involved palaeographically annotating the majority of the corpus of Greek documentary papyri, as well as experimenting with the layout annotation of the same corpus (2022-2023). Currently, she is conducting digitally-driven linguistic research on the formulaicity and creativity present in Byzantine Book Epigrams, as part of the 'Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams' (DBBE) project, under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Klaas Bentein and Prof.Dr. Els Lefever. Her interests include papyrology, palaeography, historical sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and constructional approaches to language, combined with digital methods and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
