Emmanuel Moutafov

Emmanuel S. Moutafov was born in Sofia in 1968. He received his PhD in Pre-Modern and Contemporary Global History in 2002. He was habilitated at the Institute of Art Studies (IAS) in 2009 in the field of Medieval and National Revival Art; he was elected Professor (2019) and Doctor of Science in Theory and History of Art (2022). He is a Byzantinist, epigrapher and art historian at IAS-BAS where he has worked as a full-time researcher since 1999. He was its Scientific Secretary (2013-2014) and Director (2014-2022).

He has over 150 scientific publications, including seven monographs.