Team
Dr. Yasir Yılmaz
Yasir Yılmaz is the PI of the GraViz project. He is a scholar researching the comparative histories of the Ottoman Empire and Habsburg monarchy, with emphasis on early modern and modern diplomatic encounters between the two states. With the GraViz project, he began to explore the understudied institutional history of the Ottoman grand vizierate, in comparison with the office’s peers across early modern Eurasia. Yılmaz has previously published in the Mediterranean Historical Review, the Austrian History Yearbook, and the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies. Most recently, he guest edited for the Review of Middle East Studies a special dossier about the Köprülü grand vizier family.
Mail:
yasir.yilmaz@oeaw.ac.at
Phone:
+43 1 51581-7337
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich
Nilab Saeedi, MA, PhD
Nilab Saeedi is a Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Studies (IHB). She earned her PhD from Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul, Turkey, on January 8, 2025. She also holds a Master’s degree in Turkish Literature from Ondokuz Mayıs University and a Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics from Kabul University.
During her academic career, Nilab taught courses on art and literature at Ibn Haldun University and worked as a Turkish-English and Persian translator during her master’s studies. Her research interests include early modern Ottoman history and Islamic intellectual history.
Currently, she is responsible for the translation and transcription of Ottoman Turkish correspondence between the Habsburg and Ottoman courts at GraViz.
Mail:
nilab.saeedi@oeaw.ac.at
Phone:
+43 1 51581-7367
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich
Michael Vogelsberger, MA, MSc
Michael Vogelsberger is reasearch associate at the IHB and a PhD candidate at the University of Vienna with a special interest in Habsburg-Ottoman relations. He holds a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from KU Leuven and a Master’s degree in History from Humboldt University of Berlin. He has previous experience in transliterating writings in German Kurrent and is currently responsible for the German and Latin correspondence between the Habsburg and Ottoman courts at GraViz.
Mail:
michael.vogelsberger@oeaw.ac.at
Phone:
+43 1 51581-7314
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich
Dimitra Grigoriou, MSc, MA
Dimitra Grigoriou is a Linguist and Digital Humanist. She works as a research technician at the IHB. She is responsible for the transcription as well as the data modelling of the digital objects within the QhoD data using technologies such as TEI/XML and XSLT. Her areas of focus include: data modeling and management, relational modeling, machine learning and digital edition.
Mail:
dimitra.grigoriou@oeaw.ac.at
Phone:
+43 1 51581-7317
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich
Mag. Dr. Stephan Kurz
Stephan Kurz, postdoc researcher at the IHB, is responsible for data modelling and presentation of the digital objects within QhoD’s Grazer Asset Management Systems GAMS framework both in terms of technology (TEI, XSLT) and visual representation (HTML/CSS). His research interests include textual scholarship, history of typography, but also extend into digital aspects of prosopography and bibliography.
Mail:
stephan.kurz@oeaw.ac.at
Phone:
+43-1-51581-7321
IHB
Georg-Coch-Platz 2/3. Stock
A-1010 Wien/Österreich
Associates
Jakob Sonnberger, BA
Jakob Sonnberger is working at the Center for Information Modeling at the University of Graz. Within the project he is responsible for the implementation of QhoD into the technical infrastructure (GAMS) developed at the center.
Mail:
jakob.sonnberger@uni-graz.at
Phone:
+43 (0) 316 380 5790
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung – Karl-Franzens-Universität
Graz
Elisabethstraße 59/3
A-8010 Graz/Österreich
Dr. Ercan Akyol, BA, M.A.
Ercan Akyol (PhD) is a senior lecturer in Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna. His main research interests lie in the area of early modern Ottoman cultural history. In his Ph.D. thesis, he focuses on Ottoman literary culture in the early 17th century. In the scope of his research area, he is particularly interested in the literary historiography, Ottoman paleography, manuscript culture, and letter-writing practices (content, form, and folding techniques). He has published various articles and encyclopedic entries on Ottoman history, literature, and culture.
Mail:
ercan.akyol@univie.ac.at
Phone:
+43-1-4277-43401
Institut für Orientalistik der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2, Hof 4
1090 Wien