Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels

Director Dept. of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology)

Professor for Classical Indology, South Asia Institute of the Heidelberg University (since 1996)

Speaker of the Indology Chapter of the Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (2001-2004)

Speaker of the Collaborative Research Centre 619 - "Dynamics of Ritual" of German Research Foundation (DFG) (since 2002)

Speaker of the German Research Foundation Council 106 ("Ethnologie, Religionswissenschaft, Außereuropäische Kulturen") (since 2004)

Acting Director Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe" (Profile)