New Faces at CSMC

10 October 2023

Photo: CSMC

This October, we welcome several new doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from a range of differtent disciplines at our Cluster.

Joud Nassan Agha has joined our Cluster at the beginning of this month. She is a PhD researcher in Islamic Studies, her dissertation project is supervised by Konrad Hirschler.

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Abigail Armstrong is a medieval historian who specialises in medieval records and in the cultural, political and women’s history of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Previously at Universität Heidelberg, she has joined us to pursue a project on ‘The Origins and Development of the English Queen’s Household and Wardrobe’, which will be part of ‘(Re-)Shaping Written Artefacts’ (RFD).  

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Andreas Beckert will henceforth support our team working on ‘Reading Closed Cuneiform Tablets Using High-Resolution Computed Tomography’ (RFA09) as a Research Associate. After obtaining a BA and an MA degree in meteorology, he has recently finished a PhD in Computer Science with focus on the visualisation of numerical weather prediction data at Universität Hamburg.

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Michael Hensley joins the Cluster as a doctoral researcher. His dissertation project is called ‘Reconstructing the Library of Däbrä Ḥayk Estifanos: A Study of Ethiopic Book Lists and Manuscripts’. He will be part of ‘Archiving Artefacts’ (RFE) and is supervised by Aaron Butts. 

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Giuseppe Marotta is a doctoral researcher and a cultural heritage conservator (paper-based materials, parchment, and photography). He has joined us from the SAF Scuola di Alta Formazione, where he completed an MA dissertation on ‘The conservation treatment of the fifteen woodblock prints series of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer, from the Fondo Pio of the Istituto Centrale per la Grafica’.

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Greg Nehring has joined our laboratory as a Research Associate. Previously, he was a research assistant at Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM). At Universität Hamburg, he completed a PhD in Archaeometry with a dissertation on the ‘Archaeometric analysis of historic manuscripts and its impact on the history of inks, conservation, and the long-term preservation of writing materials’.  

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Christoph Weyer is a postdoctoral researcher who joins us to pursue a project on ‘Arabic Music Theory and Music in Manuscripts of the Latin Middle Ages’, which will be part of ‘Multilingual Written Artefacts’ (RFH). Previously, he obtained degrees in music history and musicology at Folkwang Universität Essen and Freie Universität Berlin. He has been a research assistant at the Institute for Historical Musicology at Universität Hamburg since 2019.