Dominik Wujastyk is a professor and Singhmar Chair of Ancient Indian Society and Polity at the University of Alberta. His areas of research include Sanskrit language and literature, classical Indian studies, social and intellectual history of precolonial India, and the history of science and medicine in premodern India. Wujastyk has published many articles and books based on his research, including The Roots of Ayurveda; he has also coedited Studies on Indian Medical History and Mathematics and Medicine in Sanskrit.
