Bernhard Palme is the Professor for Ancient History and Papyrology at the University of Vienna, and the Director of the Department of Papyri and Papyrus Museum at the Austrian National Library.
In 2019, he was a co-organiser of the 'The 20th Oxford-Princeton-Vienna-Berlin-Mainz Graduate Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval History', which was co-funded by the International Partnership Scheme.