Giuseppe De Gregorio was born in Rome in 1962. He studied Palaeography and Diplomatics as well as Byzantine and Medieval Studies and Classical Philology at the University of Rome La Sapienza (1981-1986). He continued training with Dieter Harlfinger in Berlin and Hamburg between 1987 and 1992. From 1992 to 1998 he worked as a research assistant in Greek Palaeography at the University of Rome La Sapienza before he accepted a chair in Greek Palaeography and Byzantine Studies at the University of Salerno in 1998 (from 1998 to 2001 as an associate professor, and, since 2002, as a chair). Furthermore, he is teaching Greek Palaeography at the University of Rome La Sapienza since 2007. He is coaching Master students and doctoral candidates at the University of Salerno and the University of Rome La Sapienza. From 2005 to 2011 he was a member of different scientific institutions of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Committee for Byzantine Studies, Board of Trustees of the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Advisory Council for the Centre of Medieval Studies); in Vienna he participated in cataloguing projects and in preparing new projects in Byzantine studies (the scribes of the Viennese Greek manuscripts, the Patriarchal Register of Constantinople, the Viennese Greek palimpsests). Furthermore, as a member of the Committee Indici e cataloghi delle biblioteche italiane of the Italian Ministry of Culture, he is in charge of a project for cataloguing the Greek manuscripts of the National Library in Rome. In addition, he headed a research group for Interaction between the East and the West in the Byzantine World: Literary, Hagiographical and Liturgical Aspects of Manuscript Production from the 6th to the 15th Century. He is a member of the Comité International de Paléographie Grecque and became President of the Italian Palaeographical Society in 2006. Petra Kappert Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Culture of the University of Hamburg between 01.09.2012 and 28.02.2013