Axel Michaels
Indologist Axel Michaels, director of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" and researcher at the South Asia Institute (SAI) of Heidelberg University, will receive the Lautenschläger Research Prize endowed with 250,000 euros. The honour is bestowed on an "internationally recognised research personality who is the embodiment of outstanding achievement in research," explains Dr. h.c. Manfred Lautenschläger, the award's sponsor and honorary senator of Heidelberg University. The award ceremony for the most highly endowed research prize from a private sponsor in Germany will be held on 4 December 2015. The keynote address will be given by Heidelberg alumnus Hans-Dieter Hermann, who is the sports psychologist for the German national soccer team. Alex Michaels has been a professor of Classical Indology at the SAI since 1996, where he heads the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia. From 2002 to 2013, Prof. Michaels served as spokesperson for the "Ritual Dynamics" Collaborative Research Centre, which he was instrumental in shaping. The researcher has been a member of the directorate of the cluster of excellence since 2007, and is acting director of the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) founded at Ruperto Carola in 2013.
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