Dr Vandana Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, and a Former Resident Research Fellow on Atharvaveda at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. A scholar of Indian metaphysics and consciousness studies, her research spans Advaita Vedānta, Śaivism, Yoga philosophy, pramāṇa-śāstra, the Upaniṣads, and the interface between Indian philosophy and contemporary science.
She has held the ICSSR Postdoctoral Fellowship (on Ādi Śaṅkarācārya’s Prakaraṇagranthas) and the ICPR Junior Research Fellowship (on Śaṅkara Vedānta and environmental harmony). She is the author of five books, published by Motilal Banarsidass, Chaukhambā Sanskrit Prakashan, and Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and twenty-eight research papers in Scopus-indexed and international journals. Her monograph on Śaṅkara Vedānta and ecological ethics received the Svāmī Praṇavānanda Book Award and was commended by the former Vice President of India.
She served as Principal Researcher for the Kedārnāth Dhāma project under the Prime Minister’s Dvādaśalinga initiative, earning recognition from the Ministry of Culture, and has represented India at the World Congress of Philosophy in Greece, China, and Rome.
At FIHCR, Dr Sharma has contributed to the ongoing project on Buddhism, bringing her interdisciplinary expertise in Indian philosophical traditions to the study of Buddhist thought.