Chiara Barbati

Academic Experience
2023- Associate Professor at the Departement of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Italy
2023- Guest Professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, Italy
2021- Scientific Board Member PhD in Philology and History of the Ancient World, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
30.01.2020-present Associate Researcher at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
30.01.2020-29.01.2023 Senior Researcher (RTDB) at the Departement of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Italy
15.01.18-29.01.20120 Senior researcher (FWF Stand Alone grant) at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
a.a.18-19 Docente esterno at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Italy
04/2017 Eligibility to Associate Professorship "Abilitazione Seconda Fascia"in 10/N1 “Culture del Vicino Oriente antico, del Medio Oriente e dell´Africa”, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
20.02.2017-15.09.2017 Docente esterno at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Italy
04/2014-03/2017 APART fellowship at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
11/2013-03/2014 Senior postdoc with the Lise Meitner Program at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2010-2012 Junior scientist at the Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2009-2010 Post-doctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Arts, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy
2009 Post-degree fellowship at the Academy of Sciences Berlin, Germany, funded by “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy


PhD Thesis Supervisor
The Manichaean Cosmos between Iranian and Heterogeneous Traditions ok Knowledge. PhD Candidate Floriana Marra, Cotutelle "Sapienza" Università di Roma and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (German Supervisor: Prof. Kianoosh Rezania);
La storia persiana preislamica nelle fonti arabe. PhD Candidate Matteo Cecchetti, Università di Pisa (2nd Supervisor Prof. Daniele Mascitelli, external expert Prof. Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, University of Edinburgh).


Membership in scientific societies
SIE, Societas Iranologica Europaea
AIS, Association for Iranian Studies
IAMS, International Association of Manichaean Studies
Ismeo, International Association of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies
Société d´études syriaques
Syriaca, Associazione italiana di studi siriaci
SISR, Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni


2020-
Editorial Boards
Journal of Iranian Linguistics
Orientalia Antiqua et Nova

Scientific boards
Sasanian Studies. Late Antique Iranian World/ Sasanidische Studien. Spätantike iranische Welt, Harrassowitz Verlag
Egitto e Vicino Oriente (EVO), Pisa University Press

Projects and research groups
PRIN22 PolEmA - Polycentric Empires in Western Asia Connectivity, texts and settlements from Ctesiphon to Afrasiyab and beyond, PI Prof. Carlo Giovanni Cereti "Sapienza" Università di Roma;
PRIN Traduzione e inculturazione del simbolo niceno-costantinopolitano, PI Prof. Alberto Melloni, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia;
Elite multilinguality in praemodern societies PI Dr. Pavlina Rychterová and Dr. Christian Gastgeber, Institute of Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences;
PRA Unipi, DAFNE, Divino al Femminile, PI Dr. Luisa Andriollo.
FISR SERICA, Sino-European Religious Intersections in Central Asia. Interactive Texts and Intelligent Networks. PI Prof. Andrea Balbo, Università di Torino.