SERHAT AÇAR

E-Mail: serhat.acar@diqalamos.com

Contact No: +49 178 655 76 08

EDUCATION

Master's degree, Rare Books and Digital Humanities
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Besançon, France
Master's degree, History of Economics
Marmara University
Istanbul, Turkey
Bachelor's degree, Information and Records Management
Marmara University
Istanbul, Turkey

WORK EXPERIENCE

Reference Librarian
Kultur University
Istanbul, Turkey

CONTINUING TRAINING

Internship in Digital Humanities Department
University of Münster
Germany
Internship in Digital Humanities Department
University of Bonn Library
Germany

WORKSHOPS

Large Language Model for Digital Humanities Research
Cologne University
Germany
TranscriboQuest 2025
ENS de Lyon
France
Thinking with Islamic Manuscripts by Eurasian Transformations
Central European University
Austria
Digital Humanities Summer School
University of Leipzig
Germany

ADDITIONAL COMPETENCES

Languages (Active):

  • Kurdish (Kurmanji): Native - C2
  • Turkish: Near-native - C2
  • English: Advanced - C1
  • German: Advanced - C1
  • Persian: Advanced - C1
  • French: Advanced - C1
  • Arabic: Intermediate - B1

Languages (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