ACADEMIC STAFF - STUDENT ADVISOR Dr. Anand Mishra

Anand Mishra joined the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology) at the Heidelberg University, Germany in 2009 where, at present, he is an assistant faculty member. His main research interest lies in investigating the representation and formulation of knowledge in ancient Indian knowledge systems, especially Sanskrit grammar and ritual studies. His doctoral dissertation on „Modeling the Pāṇinian System of Sanskrit Grammar“ attempts to explore the Pāṇinian System from a formal point of view and aims for its non-verbal representation in terms of mathematical categories and logical relations. Previously he was part of the special research program of the German Research Foundation „Ritual Dynamics“ at Heidelberg University. His other research interests include Medieval Vaiṣṇavism, especially Śuddhādvaita.

Anand Mishra studied Mathematics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and Computational Linguistics and Classical Indology at Heidelberg University, Germany.