Members and Visitors

George A. Kiraz
Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute
Ottoman Religious Minorities, Syriac Studies

George A. Kiraz is a Senior Research Associate at the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Collaborative Research, where his work bridges computational linguistics, the digital humanities, and Syriac Studies. He is widely recognized for developing large-scale digital infrastructures for the study of Syriac and related Christian traditions, integrating philology, manuscript studies, and artificial intelligence. His current research focuses on the Arabic Gospels, with particular attention to their multilingual transmission, textual history, and cultural contexts, situating Arabic biblical literature within broader networks linking Greek, Syriac, and Coptic traditions.

Nicolas Lenner
Systems Biology, Ecosystem Dynamics

Nicolas Lenner is interested in the constraints that fundamental biochemical and physics principles impose on the growth and survival of living systems. He combines a principled approach with quantitative analysis of ecological and plant physiological observations, exploring to what extent microscopic necessities shape macroscopic occurrences.