Gabriele Cornelli is Associated Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Brasilia (UnB). He was President of the International Plato Society (2013-2016) and Director of the Archai UNESCO Chair on the origins of Western Thought. He is working in Post-Graduate Programs in Metaphysics and Bioethics at UnB. It has been coordinator of all 3 Programs. He is also Editor of the Archai journal, the Atlantis journal and the Plato Journal. He is currently editing four monographs Series: Brill's Plato Studies Series (Brill) Archai (Annablume, SP), Cátedra (Paulus, SP) and Filosofia e Tradição (UNESCO, Brazil). He is also Member of the Board of the series Temi metafisici and problemi del pensiero Antico. Studi and testi, series founded by Giovanni Reale (Ed. Vita e Pensiero, Milano - Italy). He was President of the Brazilian Society of Classical Studies (2012-13) and of the Brazilian Plato Society (2008-2010). He is also member of the Società Italiana di Storia della Filosofia Antica and a founding member of the International Association for Presocratic Studies. He is visiting professor in PHD Programs both in Philosophy and Classical Studies at University of Coimbra (Portugal) and extraodinary professor in the Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa). He has been visiting scholar at the Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy (2009), the University of Oxford, UK (2013) and He was awarded with a St. John’s College Beaufort Scholarship at the University of Cambridge, UK (2019). His research focuses mostly on presocratic and platonic literature, with a special emphasis on the Pythagorean traditions. He has been working more recently on topics related to Plato ethics, religion and literary background and published several articles on the topic in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and French. He holds Agregação in Classics from the University of Coimbra and italian Abilitazione Nazionale (Prima Fascia) in History of Philosophy.