Biographical details:

2006 – 2011: Program of study in History at the Lomonosov University in Moscow and the University of Zagreb

2012 – 2014: Research fellow at the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main

2014: Research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for European History (IEG), Mainz

2013 – 2018: Doctoral candidate at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, faculty of Byzantine Studies

2017 – 2026: Postdoctoral researcher at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

Projects:

Dissertation project: „Stifterinnen und ihre Stiftungen auf dem Balkan des Spätmittelalters im Spannungsfeld zwischen orthodoxer und lateinischer Tradition“

Postdoctoral project (as part of the DFG Priority Programme Transottomanica: East European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics): „On the beginnings of printing in the Ottoman Empire: the role of printed books in the transmission of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine heritage“

Research focus

Foundation research

Inter-religious relations in pre-modern South-Eastern and Eastern Europe

Byzantine legal history / Reception of the Byzantine law

History of knowledge

Monograph:

Stifterinnen und ihre Stiftungen auf dem Balkan des Spätmittelalters. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz-Verlag 2023

Editorships:

T. Leber et al. (eds.), Knowledge on the Move in a Transottoman Perspective. Dynamics of Intellectual Exchange from the Fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2021

T. Leber, B. Henning, A. Sargsyan (eds.), Cultures of Expertise in the Eastern Mediterranean. Diyar 6/1 (2025).

Articles (selection):

“An Orthodox Commonwealth”? Dealing with Transottoman Orthodox Christian Networks through the Prism of New Area Studies. In: S. Connermann et al., New Area Studies: Transottoman Perspectives. Göttingen: V&R unipress,147–164.

Hebrew Printing in Early Modern Istanbul between Mobility and Stability. In: R. Dipratu, S. Noble (Hg.), Arabic-Type Books Printed in Wallachia, Istanbul, and Beyond. Berlin De Gruyter 2024, 69–88.

Wissen über die Multireligiosität des osmanischen Ägyptens im Moskauer Reich der Frühen Neuzeit. In: A. Fuess, H. Heinkircher et al. (Hg.). Mobility Dynamics between Eastern Europe and the Near East. Exploring a Cross-Regional Shared History. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2024, 27–53.

Buchdruck und Wissensflüsse zwischen Ruthenien (Polen-Litauen) und dem Osmanischen Reich während der Frühneuzeit. Historische Mitteilungen 33 (2023), 183–202.