Team
Profiles for the individual team members of the ERC-funded BeInf project are given below. Former team members include:
- Meseret Oldjira, PhD

Foto: Mina Esfandiari
Principal Investigator
Afrikanistik und Äthiopistik
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Raum: 127
Telefon: +49 40 2395-29422
E-Mail: aaron.butts"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Sprechzeiten
nach Vereinbarung.
Schwerpunkte
- Ethiopic language and literature
- Syriac language and literature
- Aramaic language and literature
- Near Eastern Christianity
- Philology and Textual Criticism
- Semitic linguistics

Foto: S. Dege-Müller
Scientific coordinator
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Raum: 138
Telefon: +49 40 2395-2-8380
Schwerpunkte
- Philology
- Manuscript studies
- Ethiopian Jewry
- Art history

Foto: HLCEES
Research Fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
E-Mail: ted.erho"AT"uni-hamburg.de
Schwerpunkte
- Ge'ez literature
- Palaeography
- Manuscript cataloguing
- BeInf Project

Foto: Jonas
research fellow
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
Alsterterrasse 1
20354 Hamburg
Raum: 138
Telefon: +49 40 42838-8380
E-Mail: jonas.karlsson"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Visiting Fellows
- Suzanne Akbari, PhD, Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ, USA)
- Martina Ambu, PhD, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Atsbha Gebreegziabher Asmelash, PhD, Head of the Bureau of Culture and Tourism of Tigray, in Mekelle
- Felege-Selam Yirga, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
- Simcha Gross, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
- Nesina Grütter, PhD, SNF Starting Grant Professor, Principal Investigator of MiTAnIm project, at Institut Dominique Barthélemy, Département d’études bibliques, Université de Fribourg
- Shiferaw Bekele, Prof. Emeritus, History Department, Addis Ababa University
- Ibrahim al-Othaim, PhD, Assistant Professor at King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
- Saeed Radawi, M.A., Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Lasse Løvlund Toft, PhD, University of Oslo, Norway
- Loren Stuckenbruck, PhD, Professor für Neues Testament mit Schwerpunkt antikes Judentum at LMU (München)
- Massimo Villa, PhD, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”
- Maria Bulakh, PhD, Associate Professor at HSE University
- Jeremy Brown, PhD, Cataloger of Ethiopic Manuscripts at Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
- Carolin Schäfer, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Check this page to meet the broader team at the Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies.
To learn more about our cooperation partners please visit the partners page.