Tamar Qeburia

Tamar Qeburia is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany. She is part of the project "Commodity Frontiers in Eastern Europe: Environment and Societies at Global Risk, 16th–21st Centuries" (2025–28), funded by Leibniz-Kooperative Exzellenz.

She earned her PhD in Eastern European History (summa cum laude) through a cotutelle program jointly run by Ilia State University (Georgia) and the University of Göttingen (Germany). She continues to collaborate with Ilia State University’s Institute for Social and Cultural Research as a research affiliate, where she contributes as key personnel to the fundamental research grant project "Institutionalizing Modernity in Georgia: At the Juncture of Empire and Periphery".

Qeburia’s research examines the entanglements of industrial infrastructure, environmental change, resource extraction, labor, and technology, with a regional focus on the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe from the late 19th to the 20th century.