Team
Iranian Studies
Researchers
Prof. Dr. Kianoosh Rezania
Ruhr University Bochum
Principal Investigator
kianoosh.rezania[at]rub.de
Dr. Iris Colditz
Ruhr University Bochum
Research Associate
iris.colditz[at]rub.de
Dr. Thomas Jügel
Ruhr University Bochum
Research Associate
thomas.juegel[at]rub.de
Dr. S. Fatemeh (Raha) Musavi
Ruhr University Bochum
Research Associate
seyyedehfatemeh.musavi[at]rub.de
Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera
Freie Universität Berlin
Principal Investigator
alberto.cantera[at]fu-berlin.de
Dr. Benedikt Peschl
Freie Universität Berlin
Research Associate
benedikt.peschl[at]fu-berlin.de
Student assistants
Alonso Constenla Cervantes
Ruhr University Bochum
Student Assistant
alonso.constenlacervantes[at]rub.de
Allegra Goldstrass
Ruhr University Bochum
Student Assistant
allegra.goldstrass[at]rub.de
Pan, Jia-Lin
Ruhr University Bochum
Student Assistant
jia-lin.pan[at]rub.de
William Uyttendaele
Freie Universität Berlin
Student Assistant
williau97[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Nikta Yekrang Safakar
Freie Universität Berlin
Student Assistant
niktay00[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Digital Humanities
Prof. Dr. Øyvind Eide
University of Cologne
Principal Investigator
oeide[at]uni-koeln.de
Dr. Claes Neuefeind
University of Cologne
Principal Investigator
c.neuefeind[at]uni-koeln.de
BA Moritz Esser
University of Cologne
Research Associate
moritz.esser[at]uni-koeln.de
BA Malte Rudius
University of Cologne
Research Assistant
m.rudius[at]uni-koeln.de
MA Francisco Mondaca
University of Cologne
Research Associate
active until May 2024
active until May 2024
BA Luke Maximilian Günther
University of Cologne
Research Assistant
active until April 2024
active until April 2024
MA David Neugebauer
University of Cologne
Freelance Developer
active June 2024 – October 2025
active June 2024 – October 2025
External collaborators and affiliates
Prof. Dr. Domenico Agostini
Università di Napoli L'Orientale (Rome, Italy)
External Collaborator
domenico.agostini[at]unior.it
Angelica Gaspari
Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome, Italy)
External Collaborator
angelica.gaspari[at]uniroma1.it
Dr. Mateusz Kłagisz
Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland)
External Collaborator
mateusz.klagisz[at]uj.edu.pl
Dr. Carlo Marchetti
Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome, Italy)
External Collaborator
carlo.marchetti[at]uniroma1.it
Floriana Marra
Ruhr University Bochum
Project Affiliate
floriana.marra[at]rub.de
Former collaborators
Prof. Dr. Shaul Shaked ✟
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Principal Investigator
b. 1933, d. 2021
b. 1933, d. 2021
The staff of MPCD mourns the loss of their project partner, Prof. Dr. Shaul Shaked, who passed away on 27 October 2021. Prof. Shaked was an Emeritus Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a most distinguished scholar in Iranian Studies, Religious Studies, Aramaic, and the study of magic in Late Antiquity. Through his extensive preliminary work on the Middle Persian Dictionary Project (MPDP, discontinued), he laid the foundation for MPCD, which will continue to honour his memory.
Dr. Arash Zeini
Freie Universität Berlin
Research Associate
active until February 2022
active until February 2022
Dr. Slavomír Čéplö
Ruhr University Bochum
Research Associate
active until September 2024
active until September 2024
Narges Eskandarnia
Ruhr University Bochum
Student Assistant
Anahita Shamsaei
Ruhr University Bochum
Student Assistant
Reyhaneh Lamei
Ruhr University Bochum
Student Assistant
Cooperation partners and related projects
Prof. Dr. Prods Oktor Skjærvø
Emeritus Professor, Harvard University
We are grateful to P. O. Skjærvø for putting at our disposal his corpus of transcribed Pahlavi texts.
Middle Persian Dictionary Project (MPDP)
Predecessor project, discontinued (Jerusalem)
Corpus Avesticum Berolinense (CAB)
Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS)
