International Funded Research Projects, Grants and Cooperations

2018 - 2020

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. Granted by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2018

Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Islands and Language Contact, Application for support of conferences. Granted by Fritz Thyssen Foundation

2017 - 2018                 

Preservation and digitization of Zoroastrian historical documents and Avestan manuscripts. Granted by The Endangered Archives Programme, British Library, London, United Kingdom (EAP 1014)

2017                            

Innovative Forschung und Lehre durch Digitalisierung und Bewahrung einer neuen Sammlung awestischer Handschriften in Yazd. Granted by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany (09-1705-0115)

2016 - 2017            

Cooperation with video installation project at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). Granted by ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme), University of London, United Kingdom.

2016 - 2017           

Localization, digitization, and preservation of Zoroastrian historical documents and Avestan manuscripts. A Cooperation between two German Universities (Goethe Universität Frankfurt & Freie Universität Berlin) and Bahonar University of Kerman in Iran.

2016                       

Grant for lecture journey in Iran. Granted by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

2015 - 2018           

“The colophons of the Iranian Avestan manuscripts” (GH 144/1-1) – Granted by DFG (German Research Foundation)

2015 - 2017           

“Editing Avestan Network” – Granted by DFG (German Research Foundation)

2013 - 2015            

“Documenting a religious minority, the Dari dialect of Kerman”, Individual Postdoctoral Grant. Granted by ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme), SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London

2014 – 2016               

“German-Iranian Cooperation on Zoroastrian Studies” DFG grant to support the initiation of international collaboration. Granted by DFG (German Research Foundation)

2013 - 2015            

“Dance in Iran: Past and Present”, an international cooperation between Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt and Les Ballets Persans in Solna, Sweden. and the Institute of Persian Performing Arts in California, United States of America.

2012

“Zoroastrianism in Iran”, a research Stays Grant, Funded by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Germany.

2011 - 2012             

“The position of Bactrian among Middle Iranian Languages” Granted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research via Minerva Foundation (Project West-Iranian Dialectology) and Soudavar Foundation

2011                         

Frankfurt FGS- Research-Assistantship. Granted by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

2010 - 2013              

Scholarship by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation in Switzerland.

2007 - 2009              

Scholarship by Houtan Foundation in United States of America