Univ.-Prof. Dr. Lukas Pokorny is Professor of Religious Studies starting on 1st May

Lukas Pokorny is Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies (2013-2016) and Bruce Lecturer in East Asian Religions (2011-2013) at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. A research grant led him to Stockholm University's Department of Oriental Languages as a Visiting Researcher in East Asian Religions from 2013 to 2015. In addition, in summer/autumn 2014 he was Visiting Professor in Religious Studies at the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at Chaminade University of Honolulu. From 2006 to 2010, he was a doctoral and postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Vienna's Department of East Asian Studies. He conducted extensive field research in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam as well as study and research stays at Yonsei University, Tokai University, Kyoto University, Peking University, and Beijing Language and Culture University. He taught at several universities, including the University of Aberdeen, University of Vienna, Georg-August University in Göttingen, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Stockholm University, Charles University in Prague, Masaryk University in Brno, Palacký University in Olomouc, Comenius University in Bratislava, and Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. His current research focuses on Asian diasporic and new religion in central Europe and Austria; millenarian beliefs in new religious movements (East Asia and beyond); and aging, death and spirituality in Confucianism.