Research field

structural dynamics, resilience and vulnerability of international institutions and relations, civilisational compatibility, geopolitical perspectives on grand strategy, diasporas and frontierism

Byrappa Ramachandra left India early to pursue his studies in Western Europe. He received a scholarship to study in France and later completed his secondary education at Oxford. His keen interest in international relations led him to complete his BA degree at the University of Kent. After a brief period of studying economics at the University of Düsseldorf, he attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris, where he earned a master’s degree in economics and finance.

After holding various marketing leadership positions, he returned to academia and earned a PhD in 20th-century history from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 2014. Since then, he has been teaching contemporary Asian history and geopolitics as an assistant professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Universal History at the Institute of History, Faculty of Humanities, ELTE. Additionally, from 2017 to 2021, he lectured on modern India at Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

In 2022, he was awarded the ELTE Faculty of Humanities Educational and Scientific Student Circle Award. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Österreichisches Institut für China- und Südostasienforschung in Vienna.