CURRICULUM VITAE 
Serhat Açar
E-Mail: srhtacr30@gmail.com
Contact No: +49 178 655 76 08

EDUCATION

2022- 2024      Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

Master’s degree, Rare Books and Digital Humanities 
2016 – 2019     Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Master’s degree, History of Economics
2010 - 2015     Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
Bachelor’s degree, Information and Records Management 

WORK EXPERIENCE
2015-2020	Reference Librarian, Kultur University, Istanbul, Turkey
COUNTINUE TRAINING

12.02-12. July 2024	University of Münster, Germany 

			Internship in Digital Humanities Department

15.05-31 July 2023    University of Bonn Library, Germany
 Internship in Digital Humanities Department
WORKSHOPS

08-11/ Sep 2025 	Cologne University, Germany
			
			Large Language Model for Digital Humanities Research


03-05/ Sep 2025 	ENS de Lyon, France
			 
TranscriboQuest 2025

01-11/July 2025		Central European University, Austria 

			 Thinking with Islamic Manuscripts by Eurasian Transformations

02-13/ August 2021 	University of Leipzig, Germany
 Digital Humanities Summer School

ADDITIONAL COMPETENCES					
Languages:

Active:
•	English: Advanced - C1
•	German: Advanced - C1
•	Persian: Advanced - C1
•	French: Advanced - C1
•	Arabic: Intermediate - B1

Reading:
•	Ottoman Turkish: Intermediate - B1
•	Latin: Elementary - A2
•	Ancient Greek: Elementary - A2

IT Skills:
•	HTR tools (E-Scriptorium, Transkribus, Tesseract): Proficient
•	Ubuntu, Gitlab: Proficient
•	TEI, XML, HTML, CSS, React: Proficient
•	Python, Spacy NLP, Omeka: Good