User:Wujastyk



Here at Wikipedia I write and edit on a range of topics mostly connected with early India, history and the history of science.

My background for contributing on these topics is as follows. I have undergraduate degrees in Physics (Imperial College, London) and Sanskrit (University of Oxford), and a DPhil in Sanskrit specializing in Sanskrit grammar (University of Oxford). My doctoral studies were partly carried out at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Sanskrit at the University of Pune, India. My teachers in Oxford were Thomas Burrow, Alexis Sanderson, Richard Gombrich and Bimal Krishna Matilal (DPhil supervisor) and, in India, Shivram Dattatray Joshi, Venkatesh Laxman Joshi, Vaman Balkrishna Bhagavat, and Saroja Bhate. For many years I worked at the Wellcome Institute and later at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London where I researched the history of science and medicine in early India, with special reference to printed and manuscript evidence in the original Sanskrit-language sources. Since 2015 I have held the Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Polity and Society in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta in Canada.

My informal scribblings on various topics can be read in my blog, Cikitsā. I founded and am on the editorial board of the academic journal History of Science in South Asia, and book series with Brill and Motilal Banarsidass.

I (Dominik Wujastyk) am married to Dagmar Wujastyk, who also researches and writes on the history and culture of India, and was the Principle Investigator of the ERC Horizon 2020 Ayuryog project. We are different people! :-)