2023-2027
Alberto Cantera – President
Professor of Iranian Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Alberto Cantera is the director of the Institute for Iranian Studies of the FU Berlin. His work focuses on the Zoroastrian texts from Antiquity until the modern age, especially the Avestan texts, their reception in Late Antiquity, and their use in the Zoroastrian ritual until today. He is involved in transforming our understanding of the Avestan texts that emphasizes their ritual character and in describing and understanding the history of the Zoroastrian ritual practice since the Antiquity until the present. Since 2008, he is the director of the Avestan Digital Archive, the biggest collection of online published Avestan manuscripts (https://ada.geschkult.fu-berlin.de). Furthermore, he is the principal investigator of a long-term project that intends a new edition of all Avestan texts used in the Zoroastrian rituals: the Corpus Avesticum Berolinense (https://cab.geschkult.fu-berlin.de). He is also one of the principal investigators of another long-term project in collaboration with the Universities of Bochum and Cologne: The Digital Corpus and Dictionary of Middle Persian.
Webpage: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/iranistik/mitarbeiter/professoren/cantera/index.html
E-mail: alberto.cantera[at]fu-berlin.de
Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften
Institut für Iranistik
Fabeckstr. 23/25
Raum 1.1024
14195 Berlin
Elena Paskaleva – Vice President
Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
Dr. Paskaleva studied architecture and art history and received her PhD from Leiden University in 2010. She is currently university lecturer in Critical heritage studies at the Leiden Institute for Area Studies. Her research focuses on the material culture of Central Asia and in particular on the history and socio-political importance of Timurid architecture. Dr. Paskaleva has conducted extensive fieldwork and archival research across Central Asia and has published on the history of Timurid architecture and Soviet restoration practices.
Webpage: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/elena-paskaleva#tab-1
E-mail: e.g.paskaleva[at]hum.leidenuniv.nl
Phone: +31 71 527 1692
Fax: +31 71 527 2939
Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES APT
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4/Room 016B
2311 BZ Leiden
The Netherlands
Mihaela Timuș – Secretary
Researcher at the Institute for the History of Religions, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Dr. Mihaela Timuş received her PhD in Paris, École Pratique des Hautes Études, section des sciences religieuses, chaire “Le monde iranien ancien” (2009). Co-founder of the Institute for the History of Religions (2008-) of the Romanian Academy (http://www.ihr-acad.ro ). Associated researcher to Collège de France (2013-2015). Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2017-2018) affiliated to the Institut für Iranistik, Freie Universität and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Publications officer of the European Association for the Study of Religion (2013-2016). Main fields of investigation : Zoroastrian religious concepts / system of thinking, Middle Persian and Middle Iranian language(s) and literature(s), history of Iranian studies, history of the history of religions.
Personal page : https://csde.academia.edu/MihaelaTimuş
E-mail: mihaela.a.timus[at]gmail.com
Goulia Ghardashkhani
Akademische Rätin, Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg
Goulia Ghardashkhani is Senior Lecturer (Akademische Rätin) in Iranian Studies at the University of Bamberg. Her research and publications are in the field of modern and contemporary Persian/Iranian literatures including the literature of the Iranian diaspora and Afghan heritage writing in Iran. She is also the principal investigator of the project The Grand Narrative of the Holy Defense funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (2019-2024). The project explores the development of the Iran-Iraq war fiction in Iran vis-à-vis the official discourse of that war.
Webpage: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik/team/dr-goulia-ghardashkhani-otter/
E-mail: goulia.ghardashkhani[at]uni-bamberg.de
Otto-Friedrich-Universität-Bamberg
Institut für Orientalistik,
Lehrstuhl Iranistik
Schillerplatz 17
96047 Bamberg
Justine Landau
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
Justine Landau is Associate Professor (Maître de conférences) of Persian Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and a member of the Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8040) in Paris. Her main research focus is on classical Persian literature, specifically early Persian court poetry, poetics and literary theory. Before joining the Sorbonne Nouvelle, she taught at Harvard University and at the University of California in Los Angeles, and was a researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
USN Webpage: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/mme-landau-justine-750667.kjsp
CeRMI Webpage: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/membres/landau-justine/
E-mail: justine.landau[at]sorbonne-nouvelle.fr
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
8 avenue de Saint-Mandé
75012 Paris – France
Agnes Korn
Chargée de recherche, Centre de rechereche sur le monde iranien (CeRMI), Paris
Agnes Korn is a senior researcher in linguistics at the French national research institution CNRS in Paris and member of the research team Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien. She did her MA in Vienna, Austria (linguistics, specialisation Indo-European studies; MA thesis on the metrics of the Rigveda) and her PhD and Habilitation in Frankfurt a/M, Germany (Comparative linguistics).
Her research interests include historical linguistics of Iranian and the description of Iranian minority languages. She has published several books as well as numerous articles, specifically on the Balochi language, and co-edited several volumes.
CV and list of publications: https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/agneskorn
CeRMI Webpage: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/membres/korn-agnes/
E-mail: agnes.korn[at]cnrs.fr
CNRS – UMR 8041 Centre de recherche sur le Monde iranien – CeRMI
7 rue Guy Môquet
94800 Villejuif – France
Fabrizio Sinisi
Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Fabrizio Sinisi is Senior Academy Scientist at the Department of Classical Studies (Altertumswissenschaften) of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. His main interests are in iconography and cultural history of the Middle Iranian period, with special focus on the Parthian period in Western as well Eastern Iran. After working on Sasanian glyptics for his PhD in Rome, since 2007 he is member of the international project Sylloge Nummorum Parthicorum on the coin series of the Arsacids.
Webpage : https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/institute/team/person/fabrizio-sinisi
E-mail: fabrizio.sinisi[at]oeaw.ac.at
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
ÖAI, Abt. Altertumswissenschaften,
Dominikanerbastei 16,
1010 Vienna
Treasurer: Maria Carmela Benvenuto
Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Dr. Maria Carmela Benvenuto received her doctoral degree in Historical Linguistics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 2004, with a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Etimologie mediopersiane. Orientamenti metodologici e prassi degli ultimi decenni”. From 2006 until 2008 she had a post-doc fellowship at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”and since 2008 she is Lecturer at the DOLIFIGE Department.
Her research interests range from Iranian linguistics, in particular topics regarding problems of language change and linguistic reconstruction; through morphosyntax, in particular the issues of valency and transitivity, case system and grammatical relations, argument coding; to cognitive and functional linguistics, with special focus on the expression of possession.
Webpage: http://www.lettere.uniroma1.it/users/mariacarmela-benvenuto
E-mail: mariacarmela.benvenuto[at]uniroma1.it
Phone:+39 3470927277, +39 06 49913798
Fax: +39 06 49913499
Dipartimento delle Scienze documentarie, linguistico-filologiche e geografiche
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 Roma, Italy