Dr Hermine Grigoryan

Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (2026–2032)

• 2026–2028: Principal Investigator of the project IRP05:
  Painting with Inks and Writing with Paints: Colour Technology and Materiality in the Practice of Armenian Scriptoria

CV

Hermine Grigoryan holds a Master’s degree in Armenian Philology from Yerevan State Pedagogical University (2005) and an Erasmus Mundus Master’s degree in Archaeological Materials Science, awarded by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in consortium with the University of Évora, and La Sapienza University of Rome (2015). She earned her Doctorate in Conservation Science from NOVA University of Lisbon in 2023. Following her PhD, she conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Conservation and Restoration and the LAQV-Requimte Research Unit (NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon). Currently, she is engaged in postdoctoral research within the Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg.

Research Interests

At the core of her interest are medieval to early modern illuminated manuscripts as complex objects of text, image, and material. She is particularly interested in materiality and historical production processes involved in creating manuscript books, such as parchment and paper, inks, pigments, dyes, and bindings. Armenian manuscripts are the primary focus of her research and serve as the central element of her scholarly work.  Her methodology is based on an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the Humanities and Natural Sciences, combining textual, visual, and material analyses. This approach aims to achieve better understanding and preservation of written heritage.