Camillo A. Formigatti read Classics in Milan and then studied Sanskrit, Classical Tibetan, and textual criticism in Marburg and Hamburg, where he obtained his PhD. He later worked in the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project at the University of Cambridge and at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, where he was John Clay Sanskrit Librarian until 2022 and Information Analyst for Asian collections until 2024. Currently, he is a Research Associate in the Proto-Śāradā Project at the University of Würzburg.