Hello,

I'm Nathália de Ávila, a PhD student at the Universität zu Köln in Germany and a former IVC Fellow at the Institut Wiener Kreis in Vienna. I hold two MAs in Philosophy, one from the Universität Bonn with a focus on memory and time, and another from Brazil in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, which proves I enjoy being paid to study.

My research stands at the intersection of the philosophy of psychopathology, memory, and enactivism, supervised by Dr. Sven Bernecker and Dr. Joel Krueger. Recently I have been exploring non-cognitive approaches to memory through non-Western religions and philosophies of place. My early work on Neoplatonism probably condemned me to metaphysical rabbit holes with mystical detours. In the end, I am drawn to trauma, ghosts, endings, and to the question of what endures or disappears in time.

I have always found hyperspecialization overrated and somewhat dull. Before an injury in 2020 ended my years of dance training, I lived in movement, which perhaps explains my attachment to embodied cognition. Since then, I have taken up Baroque singing, studied photography, and worked as a translator, at least until artificial intelligence takes over that job.