Academic profiles

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• The history of South Asian Buddhism, with an emphasis on Gandhara and Kashmir (eastern Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan).

• Buddhist donative inscriptions written in the Brāhmī and Kharoṣṭhī scripts.

• Buddhist narrative in art and literature, extant in Gāndhārī, Chinese, Pali and Sanskrit, with a focus on narrativity in monastic law.

• The formation of the Buddhist canon. 

• Buddhist traditions of yoga and philosophy (abhidharma) in South Asia, Central Asia and China.

• 2014–2017: Institute for Indology und Tibetology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Doctor of Philosophy in South Asian Studies (magna cum laude), Buddhism and Society in the Indic North and Northwest, 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

• 2012-2013: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London MA Religions of Asia and Africa (distinction)

• 2011-2012: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge Classical Sanskrit (audit)

• 2007–2010: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London BA (hons) Study of Religions (2:1)
  
  Academic employment
  

• 2023-2025: Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow

• 2020-2023    Centre for Buddhist Studies, Ghent University Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Junior Postdoctoral Fellow

• 2018-2020: Graduate School Distant Worlds, Munich Centre for the Ancient World, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Postdoctoral Fellow

• 2017: Institute for Indology und Tibetology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Lecturer for Sanskrit

• 2016-2018: Co-founder and editor of the Distant Worlds Journal

• 2014-2017: Graduate School Distant Worlds, Munich Centre for the Ancient World, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Doctoral fellow

• 2013: School of Oriental and African Studies Students Union, University of London Summer School Teacher in Buddhist Studies (volunteer)
  
  Awards and grants
  

• 2023-2025: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, A study of avadāna literature in South Asian Buddhism

• 2020-2023: Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship, Buddhist ideology and propaganda in the Indic Northwest

• 2019-2020: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Grants for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations 2019, An English translation of a Buddhist Yoga Manual from Kučā, In collaboration with Chen Ruixuan (Peking University), Constanze Pabst von Ohain (LMU), Yamabe Nobuyoshi (Waseda University) and Zhao Wen (Nankai University)

• 2018-2020: Exzellenzinitiative von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ritual Practices of Ancient South Asian Buddhism

• 2014-2017: Exzellenzinitiative von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft Doctoral Fellowship

• 2014: School of Oriental and African Studies Postgraduate School Prize 2012–2013