Prof. Aditya Malik is currently the Vice-Chancellor of K. R. Mangalam University, Gurgaon. Prior to this, he was founding Professor and Dean of the School of Historical Studies at Nalanda University, Bihar.

Prof. Malik is trained in Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology. He is an alumnus of St. Stephens College (Delhi), Deccan College (Pune) and the University of Heidelberg, Germany from where he received his PhD and Habilitation (professorial degree).

He has been a Senior Fellow of the German Research Council, Fellow of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies (Erfurt, Germany), Visiting Faculty at the Advanced Studies Centre at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel) and Visiting Professor at the Cluster Innovation Centre at Delhi University.

Prof Malik has taught topics in South Asian Studies to undergraduate and postgraduate students in India, New Zealand, and Germany and has published 10 books and several scholarly papers on oral traditions and ritual performance in India, pilgrimage, divine justice, religion and modernity, and South Asian historiography.

He is the recipient of several international, highly competitive research grants and fellowships. In 2016, he was named an ‘Inspired Teacher’, the highest civilian recognition for university teachers in India, by the former President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee.