• Non-mainstream religions and spiritualities in contemporary People’s Republic of China
• Religion and politics
• Religious exchange between China and Europe
• Esotericism and alternative religiosity (especially Traditionalism)

Since 2025:	Postdoctoral Researcher, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Since 2023:	Research Fellow, University of Vienna
2024–2025:	Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies “Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective” (CAS-E), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2023:	Doctorate (with distinction, summa cum laude) in Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2019–2023:	Doctoral Scholarship, Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS)
2010–2012:	Master’s Degree in Theoretical Philosophy (summa cum laude), University of Turin, Italy

My publications can be accessed here.


‘Western Esotericism with Chinese Characteristics: Translations and Translators in the People’s Republic’ in Esotericism in East Asia, edited by Chienhui Chuang, Julian Strube and Sangyun Han, 53–78. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026

With Milan Reith. “Pagan Imperialisms: Julius Evola’s ‘Esoteric Collaborationism’”, Aries 25:2 (2025), 194–225. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-02502003

“The Tao of Julius Evola”, Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 16:1 (2025), 111–141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/25217038-01501015; republished in Occult East Asia, edited by Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter, Leiden: Brill, 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004746183

“The Path to Gnosis: a Microhistory”, Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies 16:1 (2025), 83–110. DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/25217038-01501014; republished in Occult East Asia, edited by Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter, Leiden: Brill, 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004746183

‘Albert de Pouvourville’s Occultisme Colonial’. Numen 71:1 (2024), 71–93. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685276-20231715; republished in Occult East Asia, edited by Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter, Leiden: Brill, 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004746183

‘The Daoist Who Wasn’t: Albert de Pouvourville, Matgioi, Nguyễn Văn Cang, and the Problem of Indochinese Masters in Fin de Siècle Occultism’. In Appropriating the Dao: The Euro-American Esoteric Reception of China, edited by Lukas K. Pokorny and Franz Winter, 83–108. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350289598.0008

‘Mircea Eliade and René Guénon: Patterns of Initiation and the “Myth of Affinity”’, Aries 24:1 (2022), 1–28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700593-20211007