Education and Degrees: 

• 2016: Padova University (Italy), the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology, in the framework of a program of grants for foreign students.
  Degree: PhD (Doctor of Letters in Philosophy)
• 2016: Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia), the Department of Philosophy.
  Degree: Doctor habilitatus in philosophy (Russian)
• 2007: St Petersburg State University (Russia), the Faculty of Philosophy.
  Degree: PhD in Philosophy (Russian).
• 2004: St Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy (Russia), Department of Religious Studies.
  Degree: BA of Religious Studies (summa cum laude).
• 2001: St Petersburg State Polytechnical University (Russia), Faculty of Radiophysical Science and Engineering.
  Degree: MS, Physics.

Employment: 

• Research scholar of the Northwestern University Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought (NU RPRT Research Initiative) (10.2022–present) [remotely].
• Postdoc researcher, Faculty of Theology, Fribourg University, Switzerland (03.2022–present) [remotely].
• 2020-21 History of Philosophy Forum Grant Recipient, the University of Notre Dame (USA).
• 2019 COFUND Senior Research Fellow at Josephine Butler College, the Institute of Advanced Studies at Durham University, United Kingdom.
• 2017–2018 Postdoctoral researcher, Faculty of Theology of Georg-August Universität Göttingen.
• 2017 Visiting research fellow, Collège de France.
• 2017 Visiting research fellow, Faculty of Philosophy of Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra.
• Research fellow, international postdoc researcher, the National Research University Higher School of Economics (from 2016) / the Poletayev Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (from 2018).
• Doctoral student, Padova University, Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Applied Psychology (2013–04.2016).
• Exchange doctoral student, Department of Theology and Religion of Durham University (09.2014–02.2015)
• 2012 Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Study Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria).
• Research projects supervisor, North-Western Centre of the Cultural and Religious Studies Research Centre at Leningrad State University named after A.S. Pushkin (2011–2012).
• Professor of the Institute for the History of Christian Thought, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, and the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies, State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (2009–2011).
• Lecturer, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities (2007).
• Executive editor of the “Byzantine Philosophy” series, guided by St Petersburg State University Press and Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities Press (2006–).
• Editor and translator of the Russian edition of volumes of the “Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture” (ACCS) series, guided by The Theological School, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey (2005–2018).
• Aspirant, St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Philosophy and Political Sciences (2004– 2007).
• Student, Institute “St Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy”, Department of Religious Studies (2000–2004).
• Student, St Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Faculty of Radiophysics and Engineering (1995–2001).

Monographs:

• Biriukov, D. (2016): The topic of the universal in the thought of the Cappadocian Fathers and in the Arian debate of the 4th century AD: philosophical and theological perspectives. FACSIMILE FRONTESPIZIO TESI. Supervisore: Prof. Maria Grazia Crepaldi. Universita degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di FISSPA. 176 pp. (In English).

http://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/9230/

• Biriukov, D. (2016). Причастностьиуниверсалииввосточно-христианской мысли: некоторыетемыилинии [Participation and Universals in Eastern Christian Thought: Some Themes and Lines]. St Petersburg. Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities Publishing House. 232 pp. [Precontract with publisher: The Higher School of Economics Publishing House, 2021 (2nd edition)] (In Russian).

http://irhga.ru/2016-10-18-biryukov-d-s-prichastnost/ 

Editorship of collective monographs, including own contributions:

• Biriukov, D., ed. (2021). Письма святителя Григория Паламы к Григорию Акиндину и Варлааму Калабрийскому [Letters of Gregory Palamas to Gregory Akindin and Barlaam of Calabria]. Kiev: ADEF-Ukraine. 164 p.

• Формирование паламитской доктрины в письмах свт. Григория Паламы к Григорию Акиндину и Варлааму Калабрийскому [Formation of Palamite doctrine in the letters of Gregory Palamas to Gregory Akyndinus and Barlaam of Calabria]. 9-53. (In Russian).
• Biriukov, D., Lourie, V., eds. (2020). Логика и онтология в византийской догматической полемике. Очерки [Logic and Ontology in the Byzantine Dogmatic Polemic. The Essays], ed. D. Biriukov and B. Lourie. St Petersburg. Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities Press. (Byzantine philosophy, 19). 320 pp.
  • Универсалии и индивидуация в раннехристианской и византийской мысли [Universals and Individuation in Early Christian and Byzantine Thought]. 15-98. (In Russian).
• Biriukov, D., Solopov, A., eds. (2012). Монах Давид Дисипат. Полемические сочинения: История и богословие паламитских споров [Monk David Disypatos. Polemic treatises: History and Theology of the Palamite controversy]. Moscow: Nicaea. (Byzantine philosophy, 9). 312 pp. 
  • Давид Дисипат, его учение и место в паламитских спорах [David Disypatos, his teaching and significance in the Palamite controversy]. 7-62;
  • Тема энергий как привходящего [The topic of energies as an accident]. 63-70; 
  • О начале полемики вокруг исихазма в эпоху паламитских споров [On the beginning of the polemics on hesychasm within the Palamite controversy]. 71-85. (In Russian).

http://www.danuvius.orthodoxy.ru/Disipat.pdf 

• Biriukov, D., Benevich, G., eds. (2009). Антология восточно-христианскои мысли. Ортодоксия и гетеродоксия [Anthology of Eastern Christian Theological Thought. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy]: In 2 vols. Vol. 1. St Petersburg. (Byzantine philosophy, T. 4).
  • Александр Александрийский [Alexander of Alexandria]. 99-106; 
  • Арий [Arius]. 116-131;
  • Астерий Софист [Asterius the Sophist]. 139-145;
  • Аэций [Aetius]. 220-230; Евномий [Eunomius]. 235-247;
  • Василий Великий. Полемика с Евномием [Basil the Great. The polemics with Eunomius]. 269-290;
  • Григорий Богослов. Триадологи и полемика с арианством [Gregory the Theologian. Triadology and the polemics with the Anti-Aryans]. 291-300;
  • Григорий Нисский. Полемика с Евномием [Gregory of Nyssa. The polemics with Eunomius]. 315-322;
  • Григорий Нисский (в разделе «Формирование антропологических концепций»). [Gregory of Nyssa (in the section “The Formation of Anthropological Ideas”)]. 397-405. (In Russian).
• Biriukov, D., Benevich, G., eds. (2009). Антология восточно-христианской мысли. Ортодоксия и гетеродоксия [Anthology of Eastern Christian Theological Thought. Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy]: In 2 vols. Vol. 2. St Petersburg. (Byzantine philosophy, T. 5).
  • Дионисий Ареопагит: учение о Боге и о Божественных именах [Dionysius the Areopagite: The Doctrine of God and Divine Names]. 7-18;
  • Симеон Новый Богослов [Simeon the New Theologian]. 283–292;
  • Николай Мефонский. Полемика с латинянами и Сотирихом, учение о Пятидесятнице и опровержение Прокла, в контексте учения об иерархии причин и проблемы универсалий [Nikolai pf Mefona. The polemics with the Latins and Sotirich, the doctrine of Pentecost, and the refutation of Proclus, in the context of the doctrine of the hierarchy of causes and the problem of universals]. 341-370;
  • Григорий Палама [Gregory Palamas]. 448-466;
  • Григорий Акиндин [Gregory Akyndinus]. 467-476;
  • Никифор Григора [Nicephorus Gregoras]. 548-562. (In Russian).

Papers:

• Biriukov, D., Gravin A. (2023) “Palamism, Humboldtianism, and Magicism in Pavel Florensky’s Philosophy of Language”, Religions 14 (197)

https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14020197

• Biriukov, D. (2022) “Different Faces of Byzantium: Attitudes to Byzantium Presented in Ivan Kireevsky, Alexey Khomyakov and Their Circle”. Studies in East European Thought. March.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11212-021-09449-8

• Biriukov, D. (2022) “Два мыслителя в разговоре о паламизме: софиологический паламизм о. Сергия Булгакова и неопаламизм Георгия Флоровского (1910–1920‑е гг.).” In: С. Н. Булгаков: pro et contra. Религиозно-философские и теологические идеи С. Н. Булгакова в оценках отечественных и зарубежных мыслителей и исследователей. Санкт-Петербург. С. 923-950.

https://www.academia.edu/89491754/

• Biriukov, D. (2022) “Divine Unions in Byzantine Christianity: The Penetration of Fire into Iron as a Metaphor of Theôsis”. E. Pachoumi (ed.), Conceptualising Divine. Unions in the Greek and Near Eastern Worlds. Brill Publishers. (Ancient Philosophy and Religion, 7). P. 292-315.

https://brill.com/view/book/9789004502529/BP000015.xml

• Biriukov, D. (2021) “‘Synergy’, ‘Energy’, ‘Symbol’ in Pavel Florensky and Palamism”. In: Scottish Journal of Theology. Vol. 74. 147–157.

https://www.academia.edu/57629473/Synergy_energy_and_symbol_in_Pavel_Florensky_and_Palamism

• Biriukov, D. (2021) “Пушкин как имяславец: к вопросу о контексте этой темы у Вячеслава Иванова”, Византия, Европа, Россия: социальные практики и взаимосвязь духовных традиций. Архив конференции. Выпуск 1: материалы международной научной конференции (Санкт-Петербург, 1–2 октября 2021 г.). Санкт-Петербург. С. 146-152.

http://www.v-ivanov.it/files/4/4_Biryukov2_Vizantiya_Evropa_Rossiya_sbornik_2021.pdf

• Biriukov, D. (2019) “Тема иерархии природного сущего в паламитской литературе. Ч. 2. Паламитское учение в контексте предшествующей традиции и его рецепция в русской религиозной мысли XX в. (философия творчества С. Н. Булгакова)”.  Konštantínove listy / Constantine's Letters. Т. 12, no. 2. P. 69-79. 

http://www.constantinesletters.ukf.sk/index.php/issues/31-2019-v12-iss2/164-2-xx