Lucas den Boer is postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University/FWO. His research interests centre on the history of Indian philosophy, with a particular focus on the social history of Indian thought in the first millennium CE. He holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Groningen (2015) and a PhD in Asian Studies from Leiden University (2020). Prior to his position in Ghent, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (2020–2022).