Raf Van Rooy studied classics, linguistics, and early modern history at the universities of Leuven, Thessaloniki, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Ghent. In May 2017, he obtained his PhD in linguistics from KU Leuven; he currently works at this university as postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). His research focuses on the early modern study and teaching of Greek as well as on the history of key linguistic concepts of Greek origin, including "aorist", "article", and "dialect".