About me

After an international academic formation at St Xaviers College (India), University of Kent (UK), International Hellenic University (Greece) and PhD at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), my research focuses mainly on the art and archaeology of ancient religious sites in Central and South Asia.

I completed a PhD project titled 'Gender in Gandhara art' supervised by Prof. Marco Galli, followed by a postdoctoral project on ancient Dance and music at the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) Paris. Subsequently, I led a postdoctoral project entitled GRAVE which focuses on relic rituals in Gandhara at Cardiff University. This project was supervised by Prof. Max Deeg and was generously funded by the UK Research and Innovation- Horizon Europe Marie-Curie Actions Guarantee. It systematically delved into the visual representations of relic rituals in Gandhara and simultaneously engaged with contemporary donative inscriptions with a broader perspective on later Chinese travellogues of the region.

At present, I am an Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo. My research and teaching focus on visual and material culture before 1000 CE in the Indian subcontinent.

St. Xavier's College University of Kent International Hellenic University Sapienza University of Rome École française d'Extrême-Orient Cardiff University University of Oslo

Last updated on August 2026