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 with a focus on memory and time, and one 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. Recently, I have been exploring 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, death, ghosts, endings, and to the question of what endures or disappears in time. I have also been writing on grief. Some colleagues keep hoping I’ll turn to more positive experiences, but grief has a lot to do with love, which is positive enough for now.

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.