Institution Positions: 

• Cotutelle PhD Student of Religious Studies and Philology and History of Ancient World at CERES (Ruhr-Universität) and the University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’.
• Cultrice della Materia (Expert in the field of Iranian Studies) at Pisa University

Link to the personal Website at the University of Rome

Project:

(Provisory) Title: The Manichaean Cosmos between Iranian and Heterogeneous Traditions of Knowledge. 

Abstract: The project attempts to study the development of Manichaean cosmogony and cosmology in the Middle Iranian languages (Middle Persian, Parthian and Sogdian), as well as its possible regional varieties. It also aims to understand how the different linguistic traditions of Iranian Manichaeism were influenced by the religions with which they coexisted, especially Zoroastrianism.

• Manichaeism
• Zoroastrianism
• Zoroastrianism in Central Asia
• Religions and Religious Encounters in Central Asia
• Middle Iranian Languages (Middle Persian, Parthian, and Sogdian)
• Manuscript Studies

• 10/2021 – ongoing Ph.D. Religious Studies (CERES, RUHR-Universität – University of Rome, ‘La Sapienza’).
  - ‘The Manichaean Cosmos between Iranian and heterogeneous traditions of knowledge’ (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania – Prof. Chiara Barbati).
   
• 02/2019 – 08/2020 Junior Research Fellow at Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna (Austria).
  - Junior Research Fellow within the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Project "Scribal Habits. A Case Study from Christian Medieval Central Asia" directed by Chiara Barbati at the Institute for Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna.
  - The project aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the scribal habits and approaches as reflected in Eastern–Christian Sogdian and Syriac manuscripts discovered in the Early 20th century in Turfan Oasis (present-day Xinjiang, China). Within the project, I was concerned with the investigation of the use of some diacritics in Central Asian manuscripts, and their comparison with other scribal traditions.
   
• 09/2017 -11/2019 University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy).

• SS 2023: ‘Introduction to Manichaeism’ (210062)
• WS2023/2024: ‘Manichaeism East and West’ (210054)
• SS2024: ‘The Manichaean Cosmos’ (210031)
• WS2024/2025: ‘Iranian Manichaeism’ and coteaching ‘Manichaeism in Religiöse Traditionen’

• 2025: ‘The Cosmic Trap between Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism’, in Mani, the Prophet of
  Light. Conference, June 6, 2025, UC Irvine Samuel Jordan Centre for Persian Studies and
  Culture [invited].
• 2025: ‘The Manichaean Cosmic Trap’ in CERES Colloquium (Bochum, 14 April 2025)
• 2024: 'Is the Manichaean Father of Greatness Light? Manichaean Cosmogony and the Role of
  the Light Father', in More Light on the Metaphors of Light. Conference 12th - 13th December
  2024, CERES (Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum) [invited].
• 2024: ‘Interreligious Encounter in Sogdian Manichaean Text: The Case of M549+M1760’, in
  Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Silk Road. Conference September 4th-
  7th 2024, Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) and University of Vienna.
• 2024: ‘How did the Iranian Manichaeans Translate?’, in Late Antiquity as an Epoch of
  Translation. Workshop June 20th-21st 2024 [invited].
• 2024: ‘The Manichaean Cosmos: between Egg and Sadwēs’ in CERES Colloquium (Bochum, 08
  April 2024)
• 2023: ‘Some Reflections on the Religious Encounters in Manichaean Cosmological Texts’, in
  Xth ECIS (Tenth European Conference of Iranian Studies, 21-25 August), Leiden University.
• 2023: ‘Some Reflections on the Religious Encounters in Manichaean Cosmogonical and
  Cosmological Texts’, in CERES Colloquium (Bochum, 22 May 2023)
• 2022: ‘Manichaean Cosmogony and Cosmology and Its Iranian Background’ in Vith CoBIran
  (Convegno Bolognese di Iranistica, 20-21 October), Bologna University (Italy).
• 2022: ‘Manichaean Cosmogony and Cosmology and Its Iranian Background’ in XXXIVth DOT
  (Deutscher Orientalistentag, 12-17 September 2022), Freie University (Berlin)
• 2022: ‘Manichaean Cosmogony and Cosmology and Its Iranian Background’ in 10th IAMS
  Conference (Conference of International Association of Manichaean Studies, 8-11 August
  2022), Aarhus University (Denmark).
• 2022: ‘The Manichaean Cosmos between Iranian and Heterogeneous Traditions of Knowledge’
  in CERES Colloquium (Bochum, 25 April 2022)