CURRENT POSITION 1.11.2023-31.10.2026 Research Associate in the ERC-StG Project RevIdEm „Reviving the Ascetic Iddeal in the Eastern Mediterranean: Entangled Memories of Early Egyptian Monasticism in Medieval Syriac, Arabic, and Armenian Christianity”. Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (PI: Adrian Pirtea). EDUCATION Habilitation in Cultures of the Ancient Near East, of the Middle East and of Africa (Culture del Vicino Oriente Antico, del Medio Oriente e dell’Africa). Italian Ministry of University and Research. Awarded on 17.12.2023. University of Geneva, Switzerland PhD in Armenian Language and Literature “La version arménienne des oeuvres grecques de David l’Invincible. Recherches sur la formation du vocabulaire épistémologique arménien” Supervisors: Prof. Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva), Prof. Boghos L. Zekiyan (University of Venice) Other members of the examination board: Prof. Theo van Lint (Oxford), Prof. Maroun Aouad (CNR, Paris), Prof. Charles Genequand (Geneva) Obtained with the best evaluation “Mention très honorable” 2006-2011 Doctoral fields of expertise: intellectual and cultural history of the Eurasian world with a focus on the Armenian, Byzantine, and Caucasian areas; Graeco-Byzantine-Armenian translation movement and cultural interactions; history of philosophy in the South Caucasus. Ca’ Foscari Universty of Venice, Italy PhD in Oriental Studies (Società, Lingue e Culture) Cotutelle with the University of Geneva 2007-2011 Ca’ Foscari Universty of Venice, Italy MA in Euro-Asian and Mediterranean Studies (curriculum in Armenian and Arabic Literature and Language) Supervisors: Prof. Boghos L. Zekiyan; Prof. Rossella Dorigo “La Scuola grecizzante e la traduzione in armeno delle opere filosofiche di Davide l'Invincibile” Obtained with the best evaluation: Summa cum laude 2004-2006 GRANTS AND AWARDS Marie Jahoda Grant (Back-to-Research Grant; Third-Party Funding, PI) University of Vienna, Gender Equality Department 1.03.2023-30.10.2023 Austrian Science Fund Lise Meitner Programme (Project leader, Senior research fellow) Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna 2020-2022 Calouste Gulbenkian Armenian Studies Scholarship (Project leader, Junior research fellow) Department of Asian and African Mediterranean Studies, University of Venice 2014-2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award Hill Museum and Monastery Library, Saint John’s University, Minnesota 2013-2014 Philipossian Topalian Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland Armenian Studies Scholarship 2007-2010 Erasmus + Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, University of Geneva (Switzerland) 2006 Ministero degli Affari Esteri della Repubblica Italiana (MAE) Excellence Scholarship for Graduate Students (Damascus, Institute for Foreign Students) 2005 Erasmus Mundi Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Yerevan State University Armenia 2004