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 Place birth : Italy
Home adress : Via G. Rossini 3, 41012 CARPI (MO) ,
Office Tel : 041 241 09 12, +43 1 51581-6508
Email : giorrota@piaueta.it, giorgio.rota@oeaw.ac.at More : PhD in the History of Iran- Iranologist/Fluent in Persian Language
Deputy of Austrian Academy of Science, Institute for Iranian Studies
Scientific Career
1996 Ph.D. (Dottorato di Ricerca) in Iranian Studies, Istituto Universitario Orientale of Naples.
Title of the dissertation: La Vita e i Tempi di Rostam Khan (edizione e traduzione del ms.
British Library Add 7,655) [The Life and Times of Rostam Khan (an edition and translation
of British Library manuscript Add Ms 7,655].
1990 Degree in Oriental History, University of Bologna, with top marks cum laude. Title of
degree thesis on Persian literature: Le "Mirabilia" dell'umanesimo timuride
nell'autobiografia di Mahmud Vasefi (sec. XVI) [The "Mirabilia" of Timurid Humanism in
the Autobiography of Mahmud Vasefi (16th century)].
Fellowships and Scholarships
2000-2003 Research grant from the Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici of the University of Venice
1998-2000 Post-doctoral fellowship (Iranian studies), Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, Istituto
Universitario Orientale of Naples.
1993 One month in Tehran to carry out research for my Ph.D. dissertation, funded by the Istituto
Universitario Orientale of Naples.
1992 Three-month scholarship from the "Ivane Javakhishvili" State University, Tbilisi (Republic
of Georgia).
1990 One month in Tbilisi at the "G. Tsereteli" Institute of Oriental Studies of the Georgian
Academy of Sciences.
1988 One-month stay in Tbilisi, fellowship of the "Shota Rustaveli" Institute of Georgian
Literature of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.
1987 Summer course of Turkish language organised by the University of Istanbul and financed
by a scholarship from the Turkish government.
Work Experience
Since 11/2003 Researcher (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Institut für Iranistik of the Academy of
Sciences of Austria (Vienna).
2010/11 Lecturer of Iranian Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich) during the
Winter Term 2010-11.
2002-2007 Teacher of Ottoman History at the University of Trieste
04-05/2005 Lecturer at the l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Historique et
Philologiques in Paris/France (enseignant chercheur), conference series "Portugais et
Vénitiens en Perse et dans l’Empire ottoman aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles".
Dr. Giorgio Rota – curriculum vitae
Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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1991-1995 Member of the Examination Board for the degree course in Persian Language and
Literature, Department of Linguistics, University of Bologna.
1988-1990 Full-time translator and interpreter at the Cultural Institute of the Islamic Republic of Iran
in Rome.
1986 Teacher of Italian language at the University of Tehran (Daneshgah-e Tehran) and at the
Italian Cultural Institute in Tehran
Academic Associations
⋅ Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente
⋅ Societas Iranologica Europaea
Languages
⋅ Italian (first language), Carpigiano, English, French, German, Persian, Georgian
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