2012–2015

Doctorate in Byzantine Studies (overall grade summa cum laude)

Abstract, Table of Contents, Disputatio (14/07/2015), Exposé (2012)

Supervisors:

• Professor Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Byzantine Studies)

• Professor Angelika Neuwirth (Arabic Studies)

(Funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

2010–2012

Field Research in Damascus:

• Traditional Islamic Studies at the Umayyad Mosque
• Research at various Orthodox Monasteries in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt

• Training in Classical Arabic at the Institut français du Proche-Orient

(Funded by the German Academical Exchange Service [DAAD], Freie Universität Berlin [PROMOS], German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

Oct. 2010

Degree of Magister Artium (overall grade 100 %)

Master Thesis: “Fragments of a Greek Translation of the Qur’an from the Vat. gr. 681” [Table of Contents]

2003–2010

Studies in Ancient History, Islamic Studies and Protestant Theology

(Funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation)

2005–2007

Studies Abroad with a deepening focus on Orthodox Theology and Ancient History

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

(Funded by ERASMUS and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation)

2002

Baccalaureate (Abitur) in Berlin