Hello,

I'm Nathália de Ávila and I'm a PhD student at the Universität zu Köln in Germany. Until February, I was an IVC Fellow at the Institut Wiener Kreis in Austria. Previously, I earned a Master's degree in Philosophy (of Memory and Time) from Universität Bonn in Germany, and as I seem to love getting paid to study I also did a Master's degree in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in Brazil, my home country.

My current research bridges the fields of philosophy of psychopathology, philosophy of memory, and enactivism, and is conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sven Bernecker and Dr. Joel Krueger. In philosophy, I am also into German philosophy of time (Michael Theunissen, Schelling, Heidegger, etc) and much more.

With a wide array of interests, I have always believed that hyperspecialization is overrated - not to mention it's boring as hell. Until I got injured in 2020, a lifelong dedication to dance has deeply ingrained in me a profound sense of embodiment, making any mode of existence that is not radically embodied unfamiliar. Maybe that explains the enactivist thing, but who knows. Since I stopped dancing, I became a student of Professional Photography and a classical singer with a particular passion for Baroque music. I also sometimes work as a translator, at least until AI starts doing it better :)