Brief CV

Academic Positions
2017-current
Tel Aviv University
Associate Professor, Department of South and East Asian Studies/Associate Faculty at the Philosophy Department.
2011-2016
Tel Aviv University
Assistant Professor, Department of South and East Asian Studies/Associate Faculty at the Philosophy Department
Fall 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Numata Associate Visiting Professor for Buddhist Philosophy, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies; Philsophy Department
2014
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department III
2013-2014
Freie Universität, Berlin
Affiliated Post-Doctoral Fellow, Zukunftsphilologie Program
Education
2011
Columbia University
PhD in Religious Studies (with Distinction)
2003
Tel Aviv University
MA in Philosophy (Summa cum laude), Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students
Selected Research Grants and Awards
2024-2025
Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Collaborative Invitational Fellowship
2024
Freie Universität, Berlin
Senior Fellow, Cluster of Excellence 2020, "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective"
Fall 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Numata Visiting Associate Professor In Buddhist Philosophy, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies and the Philosophy Department
2023
Tel Aviv University
The Rector’s 100 List of Excellence in Teaching
2022
Tel Aviv University
The Kadar Award for Outstanding Research
2020-2024
Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) Research Grant
“The World and Works of Aśvaghoṣa, a Second-Century CE Indian Buddhist Poet and Thinker”
2018
BDK and The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
The Toshihide Numata Book Award in Buddhist Studies
2018
Tel Aviv University
The Rector’s 100 List of Excellence in Teaching
2016-2018
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Visiting Fellow, “Thinking in Many Tongues”. Research Group, Department III
2011-2015
The European Commission (CORDIS)
Marie Curie Grant
2015
Hanadiv Humanities Initiative (HHI) Conference Grant
"Reading Aśvghoṣa Across Boundaries: International Conference”
2014
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
"Scriptural Exegesis as an Episteme"
2013-2014
Forum Transregionale Studien, Freie Universität, Berlin
Affiliated Fellow, Zukunftsphilologie Post Graduate Program
2003-2008
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, NYC
Mellon Foundation Fellowship for Doctoral Studies
2006-2007
American Institute for Indian Studies, University of Chicago
Junior Research Fellowship (for a year of research in India)
1996- 2000
Tel Aviv University
Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students Fellowship