Student Assistant (2018–2022)

Patricia Sophie Mayer was student assistant at the Department of Religious Studies (2018–2022). She holds a B.A. in Japanese Studies (2017). In the autumn 2017, she entered the M.A. programmes in Religious Studies and Japanese Studies, while also being a freelancer at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2017–2018). Her research interests include religion in Japan, esotericism, the self in religion, and global entanglements in these fields.