Education and work experience
Trainings
Habilitation (Indian Philology)
Freie Universität Berlin, 2011
Allemagne
PhD (Indian Philology)
Freie Universität Berlin, 2000
Allemagne
MA (Etudes Indiennes, Etudes Iraniennes)
Humboldt Universität Berlin, 1997
Allemagne
Work experience
Professeur Ordinaire (Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies)
University Lausanne
2012
Suisse
Substitute Professor (Indology)
Chair of Indology, University Würzburg
2011
- 2012
Allemagne
Scientific Collaborator (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Institute of Indology, Freie Universität Berlin
2000
- 2012
Allemagne
Visiting Professor
January - June 2015
Department for Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Washington, Seattle
U.S.A.
Maître de conférences invité
May/June 2010
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
France
Others activities
Editorial responsibilities
Editor-in-Chief : Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Co-editor : Gandharan Buddhist Texts Series
Member of the Editorial Board : Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques
Academic Functions
Member of the Board of the Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft/Société Suisse-Asie
Member of the Scientific Board of the Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt (Berlin)
Speaker of the section "Indologie und Südasienstudien" of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
Competences
Languages, Literatures and History of Premodern India
Indian philology : Sanskrit, Pali, Gandhari
History and literatures of Indian Buddhism
Indian epigraphy and manuscriptology
