Collaborators
The SSHRC defines Insight Grant “project collaborators” as
An individual, participating in a grant application, who may make a significant contribution to the intellectual direction of the research or research-related activity, and who may play a significant role in the conduct of the research or research-related activity.
The following scholars generously agreed to act as collaborators on this project:
Dr Vitus Angermeier, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ORCID) gained his doctorate at the University of Vienna with a thesis on Ayurveda and has held positions at the University of Vienna before moving to the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2022 he launched the research project Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia.” His publications include Angermeier 2010; 2017; 2020; 2021; 2022a,b; Angermeier and Vukadin 2024.
Dr Madhu Koythodi Parameswaran, Vaidyaratnam P. S. Varier Ayurveda College, Kottakkal (ORCID) is deeply embedded in the living traditional medical culture of South India. Dr Madhu has also edited and translated traditional Indian medical works from manuscript (Parameswaran 2006; Yamashita et al. 2010; Yamashita and Paramesvaran 2015) and is a major participant in the PADAM project that records the living testimony of elder traditional physicians in India.
Dr Charles Li, University of Hamburg (ORCID) gained his doctorate in Sanskrit from the University of Cambridge and has since worked on research projects in Paris and Hamburg and has published on Indian linguistic philosophy and Digital Humanities. He is the developer of the Saktumiva 1.0 and 2.0 platforms for critical editing that this project uses (Li 2017; 2018a,b; 2020; 2022; 2023a,b).
Dr Philipp Maas, Universität Leipzig (ORCID) is a Research Associate at the Institute for Indology and Central Asian Studies in the research project “Digital Critical Edition of the Nyāyabhāṣya,” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). He has contributed numerous seminal publications on the history of Yoga, Indian medicine and Indian manuscript codicology (selected medical history and yoga publications: Maas 2018; Maas and Verdon 2018; Maas 2004; 2006; 2008a,b; 2009; 2010a,b).
Prof. Kenneth G. Zysk, Emeritus, University of Copenhagen (ORCID) is a senior scholar of international repute with experience in textual criticism and editorial work on Sanskrit manuscripts and medical history (selected medical history publications: Zysk 1986; 1991; 1992; 1993a,b; 1995a,b; 1996a,b; 1999; 2000a,b; 2001; 2002–03; 2009; 2020; 2021; 2025; Zysk and Yamashita 2019; 2022).