Duccio Lelli received his BA and MA in Classics from the University of Florence. He holds PhDs from the University of Macerata (2014) and Leiden University (2015), both in the field of Vedic. He has been awarded a Gonda Fellowship to study at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden and another fellowship for the École française d'Extrême-Orient. He currently lives and works in Pistoia, Italy.