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Brief CV

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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

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

Research Grants & Awards

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

Contact

Department of East and South Asian Studies 

Tel-Aviv University, P.O.B. 39040, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel

Email 

roytzo[at]tauex[dot]tau[dot]ac[dot]il

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