Bio: Dr Maxim Fomin completed his doctoral thesis on the topic of righteous kingship in Early Ireland and Ancient India having graduated with PhD in Early and Medieval Irish from University College Cork. Specialisms: Irish folklore and oral culture, comparative studies of folk beliefs and cultural practices in European and Oriental traditions, Irish oral narrative, international folktales and migratory legends, public celebrations and calendar festivals, Celto-Slavic, Celto-Indic and Celto-Armenian parallels in language, Irish medieval narrative literature, adaptation of foreign sources in Ireland, Arthurian tales in Early Modern Irish written tradition, Irish-Indian connections and cultural parallels, comparative linguistics, digitisation and linguistic computing in Celtic Studies, history of Celtic studies in the 19th and early 20th cc. Affiliations: Secretary, Equality and Diversity Officer of the Learned Association Societas Celto-Slavica, Founding Member, General Editor of Studia Celto-Slavica series; Chair of the Irish Humanities Alliance (based at RIA, Dublin). He is Experienced Research Fellow of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung network, supported by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany, having spent periods of research at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen in 2016-7 and University of Leipzig in 2022-3. He was elected Associate Member of Centre for Research in Breton and Celtic (CRBC) at the University of Western Brittany, Brest (UBO) in 2019 and appointed Visiting Professor in Celtic Studies at CRBC in 2021. He is member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UKRI) peer-review college.