Dear Friends,

The Department of Indian Languages and Cultures at Ghent University is pleased to bring to your attention the possibility of fully funded doctoral fellowships for Indological projects here at Ghent.

The FWO funded PhD Fundamental Research Fellowship is open to scholars holding an MA worldwide awarded within the last three years. The call opened on Dec 5, 2024 and the deadline to submit an application is March 3, 2025. Successful applicants start their doctoral studies on Nov 1, 2025.

Our departmental expertise lies in mainly Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali textuality, Buddhist and Jain studies, and art history and archeology.

Interested parties should contact me directly with a CV and a paragraph or two about a potential research topic at charles.disimone@ugent.be. I will either put them in touch with the relevant professor or if their research aligns with my own, support them directly.

Please share this opportunity with any potentially interested students or recent graduates from your institutions.

With my best wishes,

Charles

Prof. Dr. Charles DiSimone

Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies

Department of Languages and Cultures

Ghent University