Thomas Oberlies has been Professor of Indology and Tibetan Studies at the University of Goettingen, Germany, since 2002, and a full member of the Goettingen Academy of Sciences since 2009, before which he was Professor of Indology at Wuerzburg University (1991—1998), and at Freiburg University (1998—2002). He was awarded the prestigious Heisenberg professorship for his work about the structure of Soma hymns of the Rigveda, published as Volume II of
his Die Religion des Rigveda (1999).