Hello,

I'm Nathália de Ávila, a PhD student at the Universität zu Köln, Germany. Until February 2024, I was an IVC Fellow at the Institut Wiener Kreis in Austria. I hold a Master’s in Philosophy (Memory and Time) from Universität Bonn and another in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy from Brazil because apparently, I like being paid to study.

My research sits at the intersection of philosophy of psychopathology, memory, and enactivism, supervised by Dr. Sven Bernecker and Dr. Joel Krueger. I’ve recently joined projects exploring non-cognitive concepts of memory through non-Western religions and philosophies of place: my early work on Neoplatonism likely doomed me to a life of metaphysical rabbit holes with mystical detours. In the end, my interests amount to trauma, ghosts, the end of the world, and death. What truly underlies this fascination is the exploration of what lasts in time and what disappears forever.

I've always thought hyperspecialization is overrated and honestly, kind of dull. Before a 2020 injury ended my dance practice, I spent years immersed in movement, a background that probably explains the embodied cognition thing. Since then, I’ve taken up classical singing (Baroque mostly), studied professional photography, and worked as a translator, at least until AI inevitably steals that job.