Andreas Jonathan Willi FBA (born 17 December 1972 in Altstätten) is a Swiss linguist, philologist, and classicist.
[2] Willi studied Classics and Slavonic Languages and Literature at the University of Basel (lic.phil.
in 1997), and comparative philology at the Universities of Lausanne, Michigan, and Fribourg (lic.phil in 1998).
[3][better source needed] He completed a doctoral degree at the University of Oxford in 2001 with a thesis on The languages of Aristophanes: aspects of linguistic variation in Classical Attic Greek under the supervision of Anna Morpurgo Davies.
[4] Between 2001 and 2004, he was a lecturer for Latin and Greek philology at the University of Basel, before joining the Istituto Svizzero di Roma [de; fr] as a researcher.