Agnieszka Helman-Ważny, PhD (2007), Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; a bibliologist at the University of Warsaw and material scientist at the University of Hamburg. She has published monographs and articles on the history of the regional production and usage of paper and books in Tibet and Central Asia, including The Archaeology of Tibetan Books (Brill, 2014) and The Mustang Archives: Analysis of handwritten documents via the study of papermaking traditions in Nepal (Brepols, forthcoming, co-authored with Charles Ramble).
Using interdisciplinary methods in collaboration with private collectors, museum curators, Tibetan artisans, as well as personal experience in ‘experimental manuscriptology’, Dr Helman-Ważny’s work is concerned with establishing paper typologies, and applying modern technologies in the identification and dating of premodern non-western manuscripts, including the Dunhuang manuscripts.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1525-767X