Floriana Marra
Research Associate- 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).
- 02/2009 – 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).
Research Associate of Center for Religious Studies and Western Asian History of Religions
PhD Student of CERES Early Career Researchers' Program and Western Asian History of Religions