Mathilde has been awarded the Society for Renaissance Studies-British School at Rome scholarship, and will conduct her research in Rome from April - June 2023. She says that she will "dedicate this time to the study of 5 Italian manuscripts containing Francisco Alvares' travel account which is kept at the Vatican Library and the Biblioteca Palatina (Parma)." Her PhD project is entitled: 'Francisco Alvares's travel account to Ethiopia (1520–26): the Italian manuscripts.'