Isis Mrugalla-Kalmbacher is a scholar of the Study of Religions and researcher at the Institute for the Study of Religions at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She completed her Ph.D. (2025) at the University of Tübingen with a thesis on Infrastructures and Reality Techniques of Social Systems (summa cum laude), in which she develops a systemic and praxeological framework for the analysis of practices in group settings in a secretive society. She previously studied Study of Religions at Heidelberg University (B.A. 2014; M.A. 2016), with study periods at the University of Basel (anthropology), the University of Lucerne (religion, economics, and politics) and the Universidad de Sevilla (journalism). Her research focuses on the theory of science, power structures and cultural dynamics, contemporary esotericism and magic, praxeological and systemic approaches to the study of religion, ethnographic research on lived religion, and relational ontologies between humans, plants, and religions. She is currently working on a postdoctoral project on comparative ontologies of plant medicine in biochemical Phytotherapy, traditional European herbalism, and Chinese herbal medicine. She is also co-convener of the DVRW working group "Enchanted Epistemes." In addition to her research, she is actively involved in academic service and governance, including as a voted member of the Equity Commission at the University of Tübingen and as a board member of the Religionswissenschaftlicher Mediendienst (REMID e.V.). Another central area of her work is science communication in the Study of Religions, with a focus on podcasts, information platforms, and international spring schools. While at the Department of the Study of Religions in the summer semester 2026, she teaches a course on "Ontologische Geschlechterordnungen? Sex und Gender in westlicher Wissenschaft, europäischer Esoterik und chinesischem Daoismus" [Ontological Gender Orders? Sex and Gender in Western Science, European Esotericism, and Chinese Daoism].