Florinda De Simini is associate professor (2019-) in Ancient and Medieval History of India at the Dipartimento Asia, Africa Mediterraneo of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. After getting a PhD in Indic and Tibetan Studies from the University of Turin (2013), she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Leiden International Institute for Asian Studies (2013), at the University of Hamburg (2013-14), and a “Petra-Kappert-Fellow” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (SFB 950) at the University of Hamburg (2015-16). From 2014 until 2017 she has been responsible for the research project “Political Power and Religious Groups in Early Medieval India: A study of epigraphic materials and unpublished manuscripts concerning the Śaiva traditions (6th to 12th century)”, financed by and carried out at the University “L’Orientale”. In the framework of the Śivadharma Project, she works the spread and impact of various forms of Śaivism throughout South Asia. She is also scientific coordinator for the University “L’Orientale” within the ERC Synergy Project DHARMA, “The Domestication of Hindu Asceticism and the Religious Making of South and South-East Asia”.
