Raphaël Hunsucker studied Classical Philology and Ancient & Medieval History at the Universities of Amsterdam, Bologna and Nijmegen. He is now about to start his PhD at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, with a thesis on the refoundation of Rome in Augustan times and (Christian) Late Antiquity, supervised by Prof. Dr Olivier Hekster, Prof. Dr Sible de Blaauw and Prof. Dr David Rijser. His research focusses on the urban Roman history of antiquity and the Middle Ages, as well as classical Latin epic and historiography. He has published on the Palatine, Maxentius & Constantine, St Cecilia in Trastevere and Emperor Otto III.