RESEARCH AREAS

Areas of interest: Persian art history, history of Iran and Central Asia, Safavid, Zand and Qajar periods, historiography.

Main areas of research: Artistic and cultural exchange between Western Asia and Central/South-Eastern Europe (especially the lands of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Balkan Peninsula); court arts of late-Qajar Iran and the dissolution and modernisation of classical traditions; museum studies  (cataloguing and collection history); architecture of Southern Iran and its Indian Ocean connections

TRAINING

2003–2009: Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Doctoral School of Art History
2003–2004: University of Edinburgh, Department of Fine Arts (one semester doctoral studies)
1996–2003: ELTE, Iranian Studies
1996–2002: ELTE, Art History

SCHOLARSHIPS

2018: Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, United States) – Getty Foundation, 3 months

2015: Harvard University (Cambridge,  United States) – Getty Foundation, 1 mnth

2012–2017: Bolyai János Research Grant

2010–2015: OTKA post-doctoral scholarship

2005: Tehran University (Tehran, Iran) – Sazman-e Farhang-o Ertebatat-e Eslami, 3 months

2004–2007: Avicenna Grant

1999–2000:  Istituto Universitario „l’Orientale” (Naples, Italy) – Erasmus scholarship, 6 months

1999: Tarbiat Modarres University (Tehran, Iran) – Iranian state scholarship, 1 month