I am a Sanskritist and a cultural historian with an interest in Vedic literature and environmental humanities. At present, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich. My research project “Beastly Linguistics”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, studies the development of hunting as a royal sport in the textual sources of ancient India.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded MANTRAMS Project at the University of Oxford, working with Finnan Moore Gerety on the history of mantra in Vedic.

I received my DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford, in 2023, with a dissertation titled "Animals in Vedic Prose". My doctorate was funded by the Leverhulme Doctoral School "Publication Beyond Print". 

Aside from academic research, I am a qualified librarian (PgDip in Library and Information Studies, UCL, 2024) and have previously worked at All Souls College and the Bodleian Library, both in Oxford, UK. 

Since 2016, I have been teaching yoga, its history and philosophy in the Czech Republic and the UK.