Laura C SchmidtLaura Schmidt has studied Classics at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She defended her PhD thesis under the title "From Lesbos to Athens: Sappho's Place in the Symposium and Greek Learning" in 020. She has been member of the Graduate School 'Human Development in Landscapes' (2016-2020). She worked on Plato's concept of optics at the CRC 1266 "Scales of Transformation" at Kiel (2020) and participated in the interdisciplinary project "Gardens, Human Senses and Eudaimonia" of the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS at Kiel (2021). She is currently researching the "thin Anthropocene" in classical antiquity as a member of the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence. Read More Read Less