Daniela Mairhofer grew up in the Tyrolean Alps (Thiersee, Austria). A classical philologist, she received a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the University of Innsbruck, where she was also trained as a manuscript expert. Mairhofer joined the Classics department at Princeton in September 2016, after having taught the Classics for two years at the University of Vienna.
Mairhofer is an executive committee member of the Program in Medieval Studies. Read her full bio on the Department of Classics website.