Dan Batovici is the recipient of the FWF (the Austrian Science Fund) START Award 2024; scroll down here for the press release and interview. 

In 2025 Dan will be Stanley J. Seeger Summer Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Princeton. He was recently a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of Divinity (Aug 2023 – Jan 2024), having been for the first six months of 2022 Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford, for which he was awarded a long-stay abroad grant from the FWO Research Foundation – Flanders.

Before arriving in Vienna, Dan Batovici was a senior researcher and instructor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at KU Leuven, where he also earned his Ph.D. in 2015 with a thesis on early Christian Greek papyri. Before that, he studied Classical Philology in Bucharest (B.A.), and Theology and Religious Studies in Cambridge (M.Phil., taught) and St Andrews (M.Phil., research).

Dan is  co-host of the Text and Transmission Research Seminar, which hosts online papers from current research projects on various manuscript cultures and historical contexts (check out the Youtube channel), and co-editor of Reviews of Biblical and Early Christian Studies, an on-line platform for book reviews in these fields.