Katharina Sabernig is an independent academic scholar associated with the Medical University of Vienna and the Institute of Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is a lecturer for different fields of Tibetan Medicine at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. Beyond her research on the murals at Labrang her interests focus on different kinds of medical illustrations, history, terminology and the development of contents in Tibetan medicine, particularly in the field of anatomy.