After studies in Oxford and in Hamburg, Dominic Goodall passed several years working in Pondicherry, where he was head of the Pondicherry Centre of the Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient from 2002 to 2011. He has published critical editions of Saiva works and of classical Sanskrit poetry (most recently, with Csaba Dezsö, the eighth-century Kuttanimata of Damodaragupta). After four years in Paris, where he gave lectures on Indian and Cambodian Sanskrit literature at the Ecole pratique des hautes études (religious science section), he is now back once again in Pondicherry.
Harunaga Isaacson studied in Groningen (MA 1990) and was awarded a PhD in Sanskrit by the University of Leiden in 1995. After holding positions for research and teaching at the Universities of Oxford, Hamburg and Pennsylvania, he was appointed Professor of Classical Indology in the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Hamburg, in 2006. His main research areas are : tantric traditions in pre-13th-century South Asia, especially Vajrayana Buddhism ; classical Sanskrit poetry ; classical Indian philosophy ; and Puranic literature.