Camillo A. Formigatti studied Indology and Sanskrit as a secondary when he was studying Classics at the “Università Statale” in Milan. After that he learned Sanskrit, Tibetan, and textual criticism in Marburg and Hamburg. From 2008 to 2011, he worked as a research associate in the project In the Margins of the Text: Annotated Manuscripts from Northern India and Nepal, in the research group Manuskriptkulturen in Asien und Afrika, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. He worked in the Sanskrit Manuscripts Project at the University of Cambridge from 2011 to 2014 and briefly taught Sanskrit at SOAS, London. From 2016 to 2020 he was the John Clay Sanskrit Librarian and since 2021 he is an Information Analyst and Curator at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.