Geographical Areas

South Asia

Hugo DAVID, Lecturer (Pondicherry)
Philosophy and philology (sankrit)

Valérie GILLET, Lecturer (Paris)
Art History - India

Dominic GOODALL, Professor (Pondicherry)
Sanskrit Philology

Jacques LEIDER, Lecturer (Bankok/Yangon)
Burmese History and Historiography

Charlotte SCHMID, Professor (Paris)
Art History - India

Vincent TOURNIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Indian Buddhism

Southeast Asia

Éric BOURDONNEAU, Lecturer (Paris) 
Cambodian Archaeology

Bruno BRUGUIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Cambodian Archaeology

Olivier DE BERNON, Professor (Paris)
Literature

Véronique DEGROOT, Lecturer (Indonésie, Jakarta)
History and archaeology of Indonesia

Yves GOUDINEAU, Professor (Chiang Mai) 
Comparative Southeast Asian Ethnology

Arlo GRIFFITHS, Professor (Paris)
History of Southeast Asia

Andrew HARDY, Professor (Hanoi)
Modern and Contemporary History of Vietnam

Christine HAWIXBROCK, Visiting Scholars (Paris)
Archaeology of Laos

François LAGIRARDE, Lecturer (Paris) 
Theravada Buddhism

Philippe LE FAILLER, Lecturer (Paris)
History of Contemporary Vietnam

Michel LORRILLARD, Lecturer (Vientiane)
History and Epigraphy of Laos

Daniel PERRET, Professor (Kuaka Kumpur/Jakarta)
Archaeology of the Malay World

Bertrand PORTE, Head of the Restoration Workshop, National Museum (Phnom Penh)

Christophe POTTIER, Lecturer (Paris)
Cambodian Architecture

Catherine SCHEER, Lecturer (Paris)
Southeast Asian Anthropology

Dominique SOUTIF, Lecturer (Paris)
Southeast Asian Archaeology

Olivier TESSIER, Lecturer (Hanoi)
Vietnamese Anthropology

Brice VINCENT, Lecturer (Paris)
Archaeo-metallurgy, Southesat Asian Archaeology

East Asia

Alain ARRAULT, Professor (Paris)
Intellectual History of China

Michela BUSSOTTI, Professor (Paris)
Cultural History of China, History of Books in China

Paola CALANCA, Lecturer (Paris)
Chinese Maritime History

Elisabeth CHABANOL, Lecturer (Seoul)
Korean Art History

Guillaume DUTOURNIER, Lecturer (Beijing)
Anthropology and history of China

Luca GABBIANI, Lecturer (Paris)
Modern History of China

Benoît JACQUET, Lecturer (Kyoto)
Japanese Studies

Fabienne JAGOU, Lecturer (Paris)
Political History of Sino-Tibetan Relations

François LACHAUD, Professor (Tokyo)
Buddhism and Japanese Civilization

Christophe MARQUET, Professor (Paris)
Japanese Art History

Frank MUYARD, Visiting Scholars (Taipei)
Chinese History

Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS, Lecturer (Kyoto)
Japanese Studies

Franciscus VERELLEN, Professor (Hong Kong)
History of Taoism

EFEO News
Call for applications
Paris, France, 22 October 2025
As part of PSL University's Grand Programme de Recherche (GPR) "Faire collection", the EFEO is inviting applications for a temporary position in documentary research on the constitution of collections at the EFEO library.

Application deadline: 22 October 2025

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Welcoming delegations to the EFEO 2026-2027
Paris, France, 14 October 2025
The recruitment campaign for delegates to the EFEO for the year 2026-2027 is now open. Applications must be submitted no later than 14 October 2025.

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Library
Paris, France, 10 October 2025
The EFEO library in Paris is open at its usual times, from Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm.
Please make your book reservation requests via the catalogue, and your archive consultation requests via the form on https://archives.efeo.fr/ (bottom left of the home page).

Consult the catalogs and digital tools:
Books and periodicals catalog
- Archives and manuscripts catalog
- Digital heritage library

Please check the EFEO's Facebook page and Twitter account regularly for any updates to the conditions of public access.
EFEO Field Scholarships - 1st Semester 2026
Paris, France, 10 October 2025

Call for applications for the EFEO Field Scholarships - 1st Semester 2026:

The deadline for submitting an application to an EFEO Field Scholarships for Master and PhD students enabling a field study in Asia at one of the EFEO centers is set to the 10th of Ocotber 2026.
New Publication
Pondicherry,

A Manual on the Practice of Haṭhayoga
An Edition and Translation of the Pune Manuscript of the Haṭhābhyās

By Jason BIRCH, Mark SINGLETON and James MALLINSON 

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