March 2023 – Current: Research Affiliate Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem
January 2022 – Current: Independent Contractor Coast Pacific | Shenzhen, Taipei, Taiwan
September 2020 – July 2022: Research Affiliate Tel Aviv Univerisity | Tel Aviv , Israel
September 2020 – February 2021: Visiting Research Scholar Center for Chinese Studies | Taipei, Taiwan
September 2015 – July 2016: Visiting Research Scholar Sichuan University | Chengdu, China
September 2014 – July 2016: Research Assistant The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem
October 2012 – September 2014: Manager Coast Pacific | Shenzhen
May 2008 – June 2009: Manager Smart-trike, | Shunde, China
February 2004 – January 2007: Manager Starry | Shenzhen
January 2002 – January 2004: Manager Top Asia Fortune | Shanghai
October 2020 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) – East Asian Studies: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
July 2012 Master of Arts (M.A.) – East Asian Studies Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem
July 2001 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – East Asian Studies Oriental college, Saint Petersburg, Russia
July 1994 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) – History Herzen State Pedagogical University , Saint-Petersburg, Russia
July 2002 Certification – Chinese language East China Normal Univeristy , Shanghai, China

Mozias Ilia is a researcher of Daoism and Chinese religion. He lived and worked in China for many years and earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University. His research focuses on the history of Daoism, internal alchemy, and spirit writing, thunder rites in late imperial and modern China. His dissertation was dedicated to one of the foundational figures in the history of internal alchemy, Lu Xixing 陸西星 (1520-1601 or 1606). Currently, he is working on several projects related to the development of internal alchemy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the history of one of the central modern schools of internal alchemy, the Western school (xipai 西派 (,the connection between esoteric alchemical practice and modernist thinking of social reformers such as famous political thinker and alchemist Zheng Guanying 鄭觀應 (1842-1921), and the connection between the religious thought and development and popular culture and literature. These projects aim to explore the impact of the modernization of Chinese society on the country’s religious thinking and practices.

Mozias Ilia (2023). Creating an Immortal Body in the External Void: The Alchemical Way of Wang Dongting 汪東亭 (1839–1917). Journal of Chinese Religions 51.1: 97-135.

Mozias Ilia. (2020): The Literati Path to Immortality: the Alchemical Teachings of Lu Xixing. Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press. 248 pp.

Mozias Ilia. (2018): Immortals and Alchemists: Spirit-Writing and Self-Cultivation in Ming Daoism. Journal of Daoist Studies 11, no. 11: 83-107.