James Mallinson is Reader in Indology and Yoga Studies at SOAS University of London and chair of the SOAS Centre of Yoga Studies, which he set up in 2018. He recently finished leading a five-year six-person research project into the history of haṭhayoga funded by the European Research Council whose outputs will include ten critical editions of important Sanskrit texts on haṭhayoga. 

He is now working on two further projects which will result in critical editions of the Haṭhapradīpikā and Yogacintāmaṇi. Among his many publications is Roots of Yoga, an anthology of translations from more than 160 texts on yoga, co-authored with Mark Singleton and published by Penguin Classics.