1 Oktober 2024 – 1 Oktober 2025: Research Post-Doctoral Research Project Scholarship-holder of Turkish Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Cologne

3 February- 15 June 2014: Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Research Center for Anatolian Civilisations (RCAC) Koc University, Istanbul, Research Topic: History of Byzantine Pamphylia According to Sigillographic and Hagiographic Data (3rd-14th centuries)

1-29 February 2012: Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks Institute in Washington (supported by Anadolu University Department of Project and Research), Research Topic: “Byzantine Side in Pamphylia, according to the Sigillographic Data” 

1 March-1 June 2010: TONI M. CROSS – WILLIAM D. E. COULSON AEGEAN EXCHANGE FELLOW, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) – Patriarchical Foundation for Patristic Studies, Thessaloniki/Greece, “The History of Byzantine Side of Pamphylia (during 6th-9th Centuries) and its Environment in Light of Saints’ Lives”

2003 - 2010 Doktorat, Aristoteles-Universität Thessaloniki, Griechenland

1993 - 1998 Magisterstudiengang, Universität Ankara, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mittelalterliche Geschichte (MA) (mit Diplomarbeit), Türkei

1989 - 1993 Grundstudium, Universität Ankara, Fakultät für Sprachen und Geschichtsgeographie, Fachbereich für Geschichte, Türkei

• Byzantinische Sphragistik
• Byzantinische Geschichte
• Geschichte der mittelalterlichen byzantinisch-nordkaukasischen Beziehungen (Zichia)
• Tscherkessische Nart-Mythologie

Religious-Military-Civil Organisation and Prosopography in Asia Minor in the Byzantine Period in the Light of Sigillography (2nd Half of the 6th Century - Middle of the 11th Century)

ELAM, N. – CHARALAMPAKIS, P., “New sigillographic data on the Armeniakoi and the Armeniaka Themata from collections in Turkey and Germany,” BULLETIN OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, 19, 2024 (will be published)

ELAM, N. – MALATRAS, Ch. – GÜLER, Y.S., “The Byzantine Lead Seals at the Pera Museum,” Gephyra, 26 (2023) 197-216.

ELAM, N. – WASSILIOU SEIBT, A. K., “Ist Andronikos Synadenos um die Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts in normannische Gefangenschaft geraten?”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(1) (2021) 163–170.

ELAM, N. – CHARALAMPAKIS, P., “An Unpublished Byzantine Lead Seal of Basilikos Kommerkiarios of Thrace,” Нумизматика, сфрагистика и епиграфика, 17 (2021), 95-111.

ELAM, N., “Thematic Molybdoboulla from the Collections of Eleven Archaeological Museums in Turkey,” TAKTIKON. Studies on the Prosopography and Administration of the Byzantine themata (19 June 2015 Academy of Athens), eds. Olga Karagiorgou – Pantelis Charalambakis – Christos Malatras, Athens, Greece, , 716-747.

ELAM, N., “Kırklareli, Hierapolis ve Tokat Arkeoloji Müzelerinden Yayımlanmamış Patrik Mühürleri Üzerine Gözlemler,” TÜRKİYE’DE BİZANS ÇALIŞMALARI:YENİ ARAŞTIRMALAR, FARKLI EĞİLİMLER, (Byzantine Studies in Turkey. New Research, Different Trends İstanbul 2016), eds. K. Durak – N. Necipoğlu – T. Uyar, İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 375-400.

ELAM, N., “Giresun ve Tokat Müzelerinden İki Bizans Kurşun Mührü,” (Two Byzantine Lead Seals from Giresun and Tokat Museums) Ortaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi (Journal of Medieval Studies), 4/1 (2021), 14-38.

ELAM, N., “Giresun Müzesindeki Bizans Kurşun Mühürleri (Byzantine Lead Seals in Giresun Museum),” Karadeniz İncelemeleri Dergisi (Journal of Black Sea Studies), 30 (2021), 671-704.

ELAM, N., “Kırklareli Müzesindeki Bizans Kurşun Mühürleri (Byzantine Lead Seals in Kırklareli Museum),” Humanitas - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (International Journal of Social Sciences), 8/16 (2020), 142-170.

ELAM, N., “Ecclesiastical Personages of Side (Σίδη) of Pamphylia according to Literary and Sphragistic Data,” ADALYA, 23 (2020), 409-450.

DEMİRER, Ü. – ELAM, N., “Lead Seals of the Kibyra Excavations,” ADALYA , 21 (2018), 245-276.

ELAM, N., “Edirne Müzesi’ndeki Bizans Kurşun Mühürleri (Byzantine Lead Seals in Edirne Museum),” Trakya Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi (Trakya University Journal of Faculty of Letters -TUJFL), 9/18 (2019), 1-52.