The Team

Explore the experts behind the project

Alessandro Del Tomba
Alessandro Del TombaPrincipal Investigator
Socio-historical linguistics of Khotanese phonology and nominal morphology; evolution of orthography and palaeography; text edition and data entry
Mauro Maggi
Mauro MaggiProfessor of Iranian philology
Variation and change in the Khotanese lexicon; text edition and data entry
Mehrdad Derafshi
Mehrdad DerafshiPostdoc (Iranian philology)
Variation and change in non-canonical literary texts and the narrative; text edition and data entry
Marco Fattori
Marco FattoriPostdoc (Iranian linguistics)
Khotanese historical phonology, morphology and etymology; data entry
Beatrice Grieco
Beatrice GriecoPostdoc (Historical linguistics and Sanskrit)
Variation and change in Khotanese verbal morphology and morphosyntax; data entry
Silvia Luzzietti
Silvia Luzzietti Postdoc (Central Asian philology)
Variation and change in medical and bilingual texts; text edition and data entry
Francesca Michetti
Francesca MichettiPostdoc (Central Asian linguistics)
Variation and change in the language of secular documents from Khotan and Dunhuang; textual evidence for the dating of the manuscripts; data entry
Flavia Sciolette
Flavia SciolettePostdoc (Digital Humanities)
Structure and functionalities of the EKhA; online storage of texts; data maintenance and data entry
Alessio Valentini
Alessio ValentiniPhD candidate (Historical linguistics)
Variation and change in the Khotanese pronominal system; data entry

Advisory Board

Ruixuan Chen, Peking University (Buddhist studies; Central Asian philology)
Federico Dragoni, Leiden University (Khotanese linguistics)
Tea Ghigo, UCL London (Archaeometry; material studies)
Sasha Lubotsky, Leiden University (Comparative Indo-Iranian linguistics)
Matteo De Chiara, INALCO (Iranian tale types and narrative motifs)
Michaël Peyrot, Leiden University (Language contact; Central Asian studies)
Nicholas Sims-Williams, SOAS London (Iranian and Khotanese linguistics)