SERHAT AÇAR

E-Mail: serhat.acar@diqalamos.com

Contact No: +49 178 655 76 08

EDUCATION

Master's degree, Rare Books and Digital Humanities 2022 - 2024
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Besançon, France
Master's degree, History of Economics 2016 - 2019
Marmara University
Istanbul, Turkey
Bachelor's degree, Information and Records Management 2010 - 2015
Marmara University
Istanbul, Turkey

WORK EXPERIENCE

Reference Librarian 2015 - 2020
Kultur University
Istanbul, Turkey

CONTINUING TRAINING

Internship in Digital Humanities Department 12 Feb - 12 July 2024
University of Münster
Germany
Internship in Digital Humanities Department 15 May - 31 July 2023
University of Bonn Library
Germany

WORKSHOPS

Large Language Model for Digital Humanities Research 08-11 Sep 2025
Cologne University
Germany
TranscriboQuest 2025 03-05 Sep 2025
ENS de Lyon
France
Thinking with Islamic Manuscripts by Eurasian Transformations 01-11 July 2025
Central European University
Austria
Digital Humanities Summer School 02-13 August 2021
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