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Members

Below we introduce the current team members.

Professors

Prof. Dr. Simon Cubelic

Professor

Modern Indology

Prof. Dr. Jörg Heimbel

Professor

Tibetology and Buddhist Studies

Prof. Dr. Marta Sernesi

Guest Professor

Tibetology and Buddhist Studies

Prof. Dr. Jonathan Silk

Guest Professor

ERC-funded BEST Project (2025-2029)

Prof. Dr. Vincent Tournier

Chair of the Institute / Classical Indology

Professor of Classical Indology

Professors Associated with the Institute

Prof. Dr. Petra Maurer

apl. Professorin

Adjunct Professor of Tibetology, Research Associate at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Prof. Dr. Johannes Schneider

apl. Professor

Adjunct Professor of Indology, Research Fellow at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Former and emeritus professors

Prof. i. R. Dr. Franz-Karl Ehrhard

Former Professor of Tibetology and Buddhist Studies

Prof. i. R. Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann

Former Chair of Classical Indology

Prof. i. R. Dr. Robert Zydenbos

Former Professor of Modern Indology

Academic staff

Stefan Baums, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Lead Researcher, Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra

Dr. Aruna Gamage

Research Associate

The Early Lost Legal Commentaries of the Mahāvihāra Tradition (DFG-Project)

Dr. Alessandro Giudice

Research Associate

Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology

Dr. Athanaric Huard

Research and Teaching Associate

Dr. Yannick Laurent

Research Associate

Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology

Dr. des. Kelsey Martini

Research Associate

Cluster of Excellence Cross-Cultural Philology

Dr. phil. Gudrun Melzer

Research Associate

Member of the "Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra" project

Dr. Louise Roche

Research and Teaching Associate

Dr. phil. Andrea Schlosser

Research Associate

Member of the "Buddhist Manuscripts from Gandhāra" project

Lecturers

Dr. Elisa Ganser

Lecturer

Sanskrit

Jens Knüppel, M.A.

Lecturer

Modern Indian Languages

Teaching Adjuncts

Dr. Jinkyoung Choi

Teaching Adjunct

Dr. phil. habil Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam

Teaching Adjunct for Indology

Private Lecturers

PD Dr. Renate Syed

PhD Students

Ven. Upulvehere Dhammawasa, M.A.

PhD Student

Fu Fan, M.A.

PhD Student

Maximilian Hoth, M.A.

PhD Student

Shakdor Kyap, M.A.

PhD Student

Qi Liu, M.A.

PhD Student

Danping Long, M.A.

PhD Student

Navpreet Singh, M.A.

PhD Student

Alla Sizova, M.A.

PhD Student

Shuning Zhang, M.A.

PhD Student

Yiren Zhang, M.A.

PhD Student

Office

Nathalie Dupuis-Weidenbach

Secretariat

Administrative staff (Department)

Nicole Terzová, M.A.

Administrative assistant and coordinator

Department of Asian Studies, Academic Advising for the Master's Programme in Religion and Philosophy in Asia