Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels

Director of the Deptartment "Cultural and Religious History of South Asia (Classical Indology)"

Co-Director of the cluster of excellence "Asia and Europe" (Profile)

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" (2004 - 2011)

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

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