Mikael Oez holds a B.A. from Uppsala University in Semitic Languages, and an M.St. & a D.Phil. degrees in Syriac Studies from the University of Oxford. He is the main research assistant and data processor for the Syriac Digital Text Corpus (University of Oxford and Brigham Young University), and has contributed in excess of 400 Syriac texts for this project between 2006 and 2011.