Elias Bounatirou studied Slavistics, Classic Philology (Latin) and Indo-europen Studies in Bonn. Scholarship of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e. V. Villigst.
Doctorate at the University of Bonn about A. M. Kusbskij's "Novyj Margarit", published as Bounatirou, Elias 2018, Eine Syntax des „Novyj Margarit“ des A. M. Kurbskij. Philologisch-dependenzgrammatische Analysen zu einem kirchenslavischen Übersetzungskorpus, Bd. 1–2, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (= Slavistische Beiträge 509). Scholarship of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and of the Evangelisches Studienwerk e. V. Villigst.
As of 2014, assistent to Prof Dr. Yannis Kakridis at the University of Bern.
Language courses and research trips to Ukraine (Crimea) and Croatia. 2019, research trip at the Bibliotheca Classica in St. Petersburg.
Before that, he was a member of scientific staff at the Institute of Slavistics at the Unviersity of Mainz (Germany), chair of Slavic Linguistic (Prof. Dr. Björn Wiemer), and a lecturer for Latin at the University of Bonn (Germany).
Project for habilitation about the connection of language and politics in Croatia and Serbia in the first half of the 20th century.
During the summer semester 2022, he held a visiting professorship at the Institute of Slavistics of the University of Vienna.
Personal website: https://ebounatirou.wordpress.com