Hello,

I’m Nathália de Ávila, a philosopher with a PhD from the Universität zu Köln in Germany. I am also a former IVC Fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle, Austria. I hold two MAs in Philosophy, one whose focus is memory and time, and one in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, which proves I enjoy being paid to study.

Professionally, I'm drawn to trauma, dissolutions, ghosts, endings and to what endures or disappears. My current research is mostly centered on memory and death, such as artificial intelligence and grief, near-death experiences and collective embodied experiences erstwhile understood as demonic possession or witchcraft.

Some colleagues keep hoping I’ll turn to positive experiences. Being an early-career scholar undergoing the climate crisis, precarious funding, nazi men targeting people of color, and sexist, annoying men (together with my spooky personality) doesn't make this an intuitive move at all. But I am almost there: grief, for instance, has much to do with love.

I also work as a translator, and I'm my own ChatGPT. I'm translating this book on the phenomenology of schizophrenia from French into English and Brazilian Portuguese. Do get in touch if you would like me to translate for you! ;)

Contact: natdeavila [at] gmail.com