PD Dr. Philipp Niewöhner

Scientific career

  • 2024 Guest professor at the University of Vienna
  • since 2023 Associate member of the Sapienza Centre for the Study of the Mediterranean and Near East in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, Rome
  • 2019-2022 "Eigene Stelle" at Göttingen University: own DFG-project "Ikonoclasm without Icons?"
  • 2018-2019 Professor (replacement) at Mainz University
  • 2018 Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften/Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt University
  • 2017-2023 associate member of the Leibniz project "Polyphony of Late Antique Christianity" (Prof. Dr. Hartmut Leppin), Frankfurt University
  • 2014-2015 Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC
  • 2012-2016 Director of excavations at Miletus (Turkey), German Archaeological Institute
  • since 2012 Privatdozent at Göttingen University
  • 2012 Habilitation at Göttingen University
  • 2012-2014 William Golding Fellow at Brasenose College,Oxford
  • 2011-2014 Departmental lecturer at Oxford University
  • 2011 Summer Fellow at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC
  • 2006-2011 Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute Istanbul
  • 2006 Scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation
  • 2006 Lecturer at Heidelberg University
  • 2006 Lecturer at Freiburg University
  • 2004 Doctorate at Mainz University
  • 2001-2004 PhD-scholarship of the Landesgraduiertenförderung Rheinland-Pfalz
  • 2001 Master's degree at Mainz University
  • 1997-2001 University studies at Heidelberg, Mainz, and Thessaloniki (Erasmus)
  • 1995-1996 Alternative Civil Service Abroad at Templehill (Scotland)
  • 1987-1995 Gymnasium Große Schule at Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
  • 09.09.1975 Born in Shiraz (Iran)