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Abraham I. Fernández Pichel
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e-mail | apichel@letras.ulisboa.pt
Abraham Ignacio Fernández Pichel holds a B.A in Egyptology from the Université Lyon 2 and is Doktor der Philosophie (Dr. Phil) by the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. After the completion of his PhD, he became a contracted researcher at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 and the Centre franco-égyptien d’étude des temples de Karnak (CFEETK) in Luxor (Egypt). He is currently holding a Assistant Research FCT-contract at the Centro de História of the Universidade de Lisboa.
His main research areas involve the philological and theological study of temple inscriptions of the Graeco-Roman Period in Egypt, a topic addressed by most of his publications in Spanish, French, German, and English. In total he has published 2 books as sole author, 5 edited books, and more than 30 articles, most of them in peer-reviewed prestigious Egyptological journals. He is currently participating in different projects in Egypt focused on the inscriptions of late Egyptian temples, mainly at Karnak and Esna, in which he has the cooperation of prestigious institutions such as the CFEETK, and the Université de Montpellier.
In recent years, he has also diversified his scientific production with several publications focusing on the reception of ancient Egypt in contemporary popular culture. In this field, Abraham I. Fernández coordinated as Principal Investigator from 2023 to 2024 a project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT): “Ich mache mir die (ägyptische) Welt, wie sie mir gefällt” (abbreviated to Egypopcult).
He has also been granted several international scholarships, like a German DAAD fellowship and Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships.
Finally, his distinctly international profile has to be highlighted, which includes long-term training stays in Seville (5 years), Lyon (6 years) and Tübingen (5 years), as well as other scientific stays in New York, Esna, Cairo, Berlin, Paris, and his current work in Lisbon since 2020.