Professor Pablo Argárate's research focuses upon the study of the Church Fathers, mainly in the Christian East, paying special attention to their cultures and languages as well as the rich and varied heritage of Christianity in the Middle East. He works on the Pneumatology of the Church Fathers ans well as on the topic of Pilgrimage in Late Antiquity. He holds a PhD in Philosophy (“Aeikinetos Stasis.The dynamic of being towards unity in the reflection of Maximos the Confessor”) from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1996) as well as a PhD in theology (“Der Heilige Geist bei Symeon dem Neuen Theologen” [The Holy Spirit in Symeon the New Theologian]) from the University of Tübingen, Germany (2003). In addition to this he has pursued studies of Oriental Christian Cultures and Languages (Ethiopian, Coptic, Syriac, Armenian) at the University of Tübingen. He was an Assistant professor at the University of Paderborn in Church History (1999-2001), an Assistant professor of liturgy at the University of Tübingen (2002-2003), a Professor of Patristics & Historical theology. University of Toronto (2003-2011), also there, director of the Eastern Christian Studies. Since 2011, he is Professor and Head of the Institute of Patristics, Orthodox and Ecumenical Theology. University of Graz. Since 2021 he holds the UNESCO Chair in Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for South-East Europe. From that time on he is the dean of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Graz as well. He has been an external evaluator for universities in Croatia, Romania, Greece, Cyprus, Germany and Chile. He has already published 11 books (in English, French, German, Spanish, Catalan), over 50 chapters in scholarly books in many languages, and more than 40 articles. He has participated and presented paper in more than 200 conferences.