Peter Pormann - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 2014 D. Litt. from the University of Oxford
- 2009 Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice [PCAPP]] at the University of Warwick
- 2002 D. Phil. from the University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College). Title: The Oriental Tradition of Paul of Aegina’s Πραγματεία. Supervisors: Dr E. Savage-Smith, Mr N. Wilson
- 2001 M.A. by resolution from the University of Oxford
- 1999 M. Phil. in Classical Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford (Corpus Christi College, Rhodes Scholar). Grade: Distinction
- 1997 M.A. in Islamic Studies from the University of Leiden (Netherlands). Grade: Distinction (met lof)
- 1995–1996 Hauptstudium (equivalent to the third year of a BA) in Islamic Studies, Classics and French at the University of Tübingen
- 1993–1995 Grundstudium (equivalent to the first two years of a BA) in Islamic Studies, Classics and French at the University of Hamburg
Major Research Funding
- ERC starting grant project (PI, €1.5m; 2012–17) on Arabic commentaries on the Hippocratic Aphorisms.
- AHRC project grant (PI, £1m; 2015–19) on ‘Syriac Galen Palimpsest’
- AHRC project grant (lead CI, £1m; 2016–20) on ‘Genealogies of Knowledge’
- Leverhulme Trust, Research Fellowship (PI, £50K, 2013–15) on ‘Arab Athena: the Graeco-Roman Past in the Modern *Middle East.’
- Wellcome Trust University Award (PI, £180K, 2006–11)
- Wellcome Trust project grant (CI, £270K; 2008–12)
- Wellcome Trust International Collaboration Award (with the University of Cairo, PI, £20K; 2009–14)
Publications
Published ten books (e.g., with OUP, EUP, Brill, D.S. Brewer, Mohr Siebeck, De Gruyter); thirty articles (including two Lancet, one Nature, two featured articles in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, JAOS, etc.); and twenty-seven book contributions.
