Based at the IKGA, she has conducted a research project titled [[Erlösungsweg|''Indian Buddhist epistemology and the path to liberation'']], with funding from the FWF (completed in September 2016). She has previously collaborated to three projects on Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India, directed by Karin Preisendanz and based at the University of Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2012). She has received grants and awards from the Italian Foreign Office, the Jan Gonda Foundation, Leiden University, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Cristina Pecchia specializes in Indian and Buddhist philosophy, in particular Buddhist epistemology. She currently works on her stand-alone project The Nobles' Truths in Indian Buddhist Epistemology, with funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She also has a strong research interest in the āyurvedic tradition, in textual criticism and manuscript studies with reference to Sanskrit texts, and the intellectual history of South Asia from the premodern to the contemporary period, with a special focus on the history of philology.
Based at the IKGA, she has conducted a research project titled Indian Buddhist epistemology and the path to liberation, with funding from the FWF (completed in September 2016). She has previously collaborated to three projects on Philosophy and Medicine in Early Classical India, directed by Karin Preisendanz and based at the University of Vienna and at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2006–2012). She has received grants and awards from the Italian Foreign Office, the Jan Gonda Foundation, Leiden University, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2016 Book review of: Johannes Schneider. Eine buddhistische Kritik der indischen Götter. Śaṃkarasvāmins Devātiśayastotra mit Prajñāvarmans Kommentar. Nach dem tibetischen Tanjur herausgegeben und übersetzt. (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 81) Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, Wien 2014. In: Journal of the American Oriental Society 136.2, 2016: 439-440.
2010 "The art of beginning". Book review: Walter Slaje (ed.), Śāstrārambha. Inquiries intothe preamble in Sanskrit. [Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 62] Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2008. In: Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici 4 (2009), 2010: 169-172.