Dominik Wujastyk was born in London. His childhood and early education took place in London as well as in Portugal, Madeira, Sudan, and Uganda. His secondary education took place in Malta, from where he returned to London for university. He took undergraduate degrees in Physics (Imperial College, London) and then Sanskrit with Pali (Brasenose College, Oxford), and a doctorate in Sanskrit from Oxford that led to the publication of his book "Metarules of Paninian Grammar". His doctoral research was partly conducted in India, at the University of Pune. He then worked for several years at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London, as an academic curator of Indian manuscripts, and a contributor to the teaching and research of the Institute. During these years, he published many research articles, and books including a Penguin Classic, "The Roots of Ayurveda." In 2002 he took up a Senior Research Fellowship at University College London, in the then newly-established Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. Since 2009, he has been on the staff of the University of Vienna, in Austria, where he currently (2010) lives and works. His research interests include Sanskrit literature and language, medieval manuscript studies, history of science, and the cultural and intellectual history of pre-modern South Asia.