User:Wujastyk/sandbox

Here at Wikipedia I write and edit on a range of topics connected with history and especially India.

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. 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. In that capacity I researched the history of science and medicine in pre-modern India, with special reference to printed and manuscript evidence in the original Sanskrit-language sources. Since 2015 I have been professor and Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Polity and Society at the University of Alberta in Canada.

My academic home page can be viewed here, where many of my publications can also be downloaded. My informal scribblings on various topics can be read in my blog called Cikitsā.

I (Dominik Wujastyk) am married to Dagmar Wujastyk, who also researches and writes on the history and culture of India, and on ayurveda. We are different people! :-)