Prof. Dr. Raoul Motika (2010 – 2020) – Director
Responsible for the research fields
The Religious History of Anatolia
Human, Medicine, and Society
Music in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
and for the research priorities
One Hundred Years of the First World War
Underground Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Manuscript Culture in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey
Dr. Malte Fuhrmann (2010 – 2013)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field
European-Turkish Relations from a Reciprocal and Long-Term Perspective
Doç. Dr. Barbara Pusch (2009 – 2015)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field
Till Luge, M. A. (2014 – 2017)
Researcher within the project
New Religiosities in Turkey: “Reenchantment” in a Secular Muslim Country?
of the research field
The Religious History of Anatolia
Dr. Elif Damla Yavuz (2015-2017)
Researcher within the project “Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae” of the research field
Dr. habil. Alexandre Toumarkine (2011-2017)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field
The Religious History of Anatolia
and supervisor of the research priority
New Religiosities in Turkey: “Reenchantment” in a Secular Muslim Country?
Dr. Zaur Gasimov (2013-2019)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field
Dr. Astrid Menz (1999-2004 / 2006-2019)
Researcher and head of library. Responsible for the research project
PD Dr. Robert Langer (2017-2020)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field
Dr. Nevin Şahin (2018-2021)
Researcher in the project
Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae
in the research field
Music in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Dr. Gülşah Başkavak (2019 – 2022)
Researcher in the Research Field
“Human, Medicine, and Society”
and in the in the projects VALID-TR, IRSSC and Hair:y_less Masculinities
Shahrzad Irannejad (2020-2022)
Research Associate in the Research Fields “Human, Medicine, and Society” and The Religious History of Anatolia, member of the project IRSSC.
Burak Taşdizen (2020-2022)
Research Assistant in the Research Field “Human, Medicine, and Society”
and in the in the projects IRSSC and Hair:y_less Masculinities
Dr. des. Kamyar Nematollahy (2019-2022)
Musicologist and ethnomusicologist. Researcher in the project IRSSC.
Dr. Dilek Soileau (2020 – 2022)
Researcher in the project
Migration, Memory, and Musical Expression. Musical Traditions from Central Eastern Anatolian Turkey, Berlin, and Parishttps://oiist.org/en/research-profile/migration-memory-and-musical-expression/.
Dr. Melike Şahinol (2015 – 2023)
Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Field Human, Medicine, and Society
Co-Founder of the network STS Turkey
PD Dr. Judith I. Haug (2016 – 2023)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field
Music in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
Supervisor of the Istanbul Department of the Project Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae
Orient-Institut Istanbul Acting Deputy Director (2020 – 2022)
Dr. habil. Martin Greve (2011 – 2023)
Researcher and supervisor of the research field Music in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey (2011–2018). Responsible for the DFG project “Migration, Memory, and Musical Expression. Musical Traditions from Central Eastern Anatolian Turkey, Berlin, and Paris” (2020-2022).
