Dr. Seyyedehfatemeh (Raha) Musavi
Research AssociateDr. Seyyedehfatemeh (Raha) Musavi is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at CERES, working within the Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary (MPCD) project. Her research bridges ancient Iranian philology and computational linguistics, focusing on historical syntax, corpus annotation, and statistical modeling of Middle Persian.
She specializes in morphosyntactic variation and language delevopment, using machine learning and treebank analysis.
Areas of Research
Historical Linguistics & Ancient Indo-Iranian Languages
Syntax & Semantics of Middle Persian
Computational Linguistics & Natural Language Processing for Historical Corpora
Corpus Linguistics, Universal Dependencies
Paleography & Textual Criticism
Since 2022: Postdoctoral Research Associate / Visiting Researcher, CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (DFG Project: Zoroastrian Middle Persian Digital Corpus and Dictionary)
2012 – 2022: University Lecturer, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2017 – 2019: University Lecturer in Ancient Iranian Languages, University of Tehran
2011 – 2016: Ph.D. in Ancient Iranian Languages and Cultures, University of Tehran
Research Associate of Center for Religious Studies , History of Western Asian Religions and Zoroastrian Middle Persian: Digital Corpus and Dictionary