PD Dr. Philipp Niewöhner

Scientific career

  • 2019-2022 "Eigene Stelle" at Göttingen University: own DFG-project "Ikonoclasm without Icons?"
  • 2018-2019 replacing the chair 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
  • 2015-2016 fellow at the German Archaeological Institute Berlin
  • 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)