Guntram Hazod

Guntram Hazod is an associated researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences specializing in Tibetan studies, with active projects spanning archaeology, material culture, and religious history. His institutional affiliation centers on interdisciplinary research within Austria's national academy framework.

His research focuses on Central Tibetan burial mounds, material culture analysis, and cross-religious comparative studies of ethnicity and empire across Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism (400-1600 CE). Key methodological approaches include historical anthropology and legacy documentation of scientific expeditions in Tibet.

Current projects include leadership of The Burial Mounds of Central Tibet, Part II and collaborations on Materiality and Material Culture in Tibet, VISCOM: Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire, and The scientific Tibet legacy of Peter Aufschnaiter.