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Curriculum vitae

Name

• Anestis Karasaridis

Department

• Department for the Study of Religions
  Faculty of Arts
  Masaryk University
  Arna Nováka 1
  602 00 Brno
  Czech Republic
  

Function, current position

• Ph.D. student

Education and academic qualifications

• 2018: Mgr. (Master's Degree), Study of Religions, Masaryk University, Brno, thesis Roman Prodigies: A Contribution to Boyer’s Theory of the Transmission of Cultural Ideas (in Czech).

Professional experience

• 2024-: Senior QE Engineer, DNAnexus, Brno.
• 2023–2024: Senior QA Engineer, Kiwi.com, Brno.
• 2022–2023: QA Engineer, Kiwi.com, Brno.
• 2021–2022: Senior Software Engineer in Test, NetSuite | Oracle Czech, Brno.
• 2021: Investigator of the project “The Antonine Plague in Rome: Comparative Modeling of Different Pathogens” in part-time cooperation with the Department for the Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno.
• 2018–2021: Software Engineer in Test, NetSuite | Oracle Czech, Brno.
• 2017–2018: Test Automation Engineer, KBC Group NV Czech Branch, Brno, Czech Republic.
• 2015–2017: Tester, KBC Group NV Czech Branch, Brno, Czech Republic.
• 2015–2016: Research Assistant, HUME lab, Brno, Czech Republic.

Research activities

• 2021: Masaryk University IGA grant MUNI/IGA/1335/2020 "The Antonine Plague in Rome: Comparative Modeling of Different Pathogens". Granted sum: 479 160 CZK.

Professional stays abroad

• 2024: “Short Term Students” CEEPUS stay at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna (1 month).
• 2021: Visiting researcher at the Division of Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (1 week).

Non-university activities

• 2022-: Society of Research Software Engineering, member.

Publications and conference presentations

• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. The Dynamics of the Growth of Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries CE : Designing a System Dynamics Model of the Influence of Pandemics on Early Christian Population. In 14th ISORECEA (The International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Association) Online Conference / Olomouc, Czech Republic, April 15-17, 2021. 2021. URL info
• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. The Antonine Plague in Rome : Designing a Comparative Model of Different Pathogens. In Wellbeing, Harm, and Religion Conference, Brno, Czech Republic, September 9-11, 2021. 2021. URL info
• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. The Plague of Cyprian in Rome and Achaea : Designing a Comparative Model of Different Pathogens. In A Radical Turn? Subversions, Conversions, and Mutations in the Postclassical World (3rd-8th c.), Brno, Czech Republic, October 18-19, 2021. 2021. info
• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. Did Pandemics foster the Rise of Christianity? A Comparative Modelling of the Antonine and Cyprianic Plagues in Rome and Achaea. In Moving Byzantium lecture series, Department of Byzantine Research of the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, December 16, 2021. 2021. info
• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. Harper, K. (2017). The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire. Sacra. Masarykova univerzita, 2020, roč. 18, č. 2, s. 60-63. ISSN 1214-5351. info
• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. SDCAS and Joukowsky Institute webinars on epidemics and pandemics in Antiquity. Sacra. Masarykova univerzita, 2020, roč. 18, č. 2, s. 51-55. ISSN 1214-5351. info
• KARASARIDIS, Anestis. Workshop Perspectives on the Scientific Study of Religion: The Search for Evidence. Sacra. Masarykova univerzita, 2013, roč. 11, č. 2, s. 53-54. ISSN 1214-5351. Trvalý odkaz info

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