Academic Posts

• Sep 2016–             — University Professor of Digital Humanities, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien
• Aug 2013–Aug 2016 — Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, Phil.-Hist. Fakultät, Universität Bern
• Oct 2010–Jun 2013  — Post-doctoral researcher in Greek Studies, Faculteit Letteren, KU Leuven
• Oct 2009–Sep 2010  — Departmental Lecturer in Byzantine History, History Faculty, University of Oxford
• Oct 2008–Sept 2009 — Tutor in introductory Classical Armenian, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford

Education

D.Phil. in Oriental Studies, Linacre College, University of Oxford — 2009
Supervisor: Professor Theo M. van Lint
Examiners: Dr Catherine Holmes (Oxford) and Prof. Bernard Coulie (UCLouvain)
Thesis: Prolegomena to the Critical Edition of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, with a iscussion of Computer-Assisted Methods Used to Edit the Text
(available at: http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:67ea947c-e3fc-4363-a289-c345e61eb2eb)

M.Phil. in Byzantine Studies, University College, University of Oxford — 2005
Supervisors: Dr Timothy Greenwood and Prof. Elizabeth Jeffreys
Dissertation: An Investigation of the Chronology and Sources in Book 1 of the Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa

B.Sc. in Humanities and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA — 1999
Concentrations: History; electrical engineering and computer science

swissuniversities CUS-P2 Project funding, SCALE-UP, 2015 (as work package leader). SFr111,300.

SNF Project funding (Div I) grant 162736 “Das Kloster-Tagebuch des Einsiedler Paters
Joseph Dietrich, 1670-1704. Kommentierte Online-Edition", 2015 (as co-applicant). SFr499,413.

SNF Project funding (Div I) grant 159433 “The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa Online",
2015. SFr476,979.

Scientific cooperation grant, École pratique des hautes études, 2015. €5000.

Small project award, European Association for Digital Humanities, 2013. €1400.

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• 2011–            —Reviewer for Digital Humanities annual worldwide conference
• 2013–2016   —Member of steering committee for SWITCH Cloud Pilot Programme
• 2013–2016   —Member of executive committee, Kompetenznetzwerk Digitale Information, University of Bern / Swiss Post
• 2014               —Member of programme committee for DHd 2015 conference, Passau (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum)
• 2013–2014   —External expert for ESF COST Action IS1005, “Medioevo Europeo”
• 2010–2014   —Member of ESF Research Networking Programme COMSt (Committee for Oriental Manuscript Studies), team 3 “Digital approaches”
• 2008–2013   —Translation of the Armenian text of the Chronicle of Eusebius, for inclusion in the online and print publications of Brill’s New Jacoby (http://www.brill.nl/brillsnewjacoby).
• 2009–2012   —Participant in ESF COST Action IS0704, “An Interoperable Supranational Infrastructure for Digital Editions” (Interedition)
• 2008–2009   —Holder of Leventis Prosopography Studentship
• In association with King’s College London, for contributions to the Prosopography of the Byzantine World project (http://www.pbw.kcl.ac.uk/) based upon the Armenian sources.
• 2006–2008   —Holder of Mary Blaschko Graduate Scholarship, Linacre College, Oxford