Dominik A. Haas
is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and at the University of Vienna
Dominik A. Haas is a researcher in South Asian studies working with ancient Vedic and Sanskrit texts. He obtained his PhD from the University of Vienna in 2022 with a dissertation on the Gāyatrī-Mantra. Between 2020 and 2022, he conducted research as a DOC Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Since 2023 he has been teaching at the University of Vienna. He has published and given lectures on the topics of Hinduism, Vedic religion, mantras, deification, and yoga. Following an interdisciplinary approach, he combines philological and historical research with methods and insights from various fields, ranging from text linguistics to religious studies.