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.