Researcher Directory

Mohammed Aziz

Master in Filosofia

Islamic Radicalism; Political Philosophy; Continental Philosophy.

Amy Caldas

Master in Filosofia

Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of science, psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, Vedics, cognitive science, quantum mechanics.

Tony Caldwell

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Reclaiming Personal Authority Upon Leaving Evangelical and/or High-Control Religious Settings, Race, Place, and Religion in the American South, Individuation as Renewed Access to the Psychoid/Imaginal Realm ,

Thomas Connelly

PhD in Natural Sciences

theoretical physics; philosophy of physics; metaphysics.

Madison Covell

Master in Filosofia

Mohammad Ali (Yaser) Derakhshan

Master in Psicoanalisi

Lacanian psychoanalysis; migration and subjectivity; identity and belonging; psychoanalytic readings of film and television

Elizabeth Devane

Non-Degree Researcher

Artemis Thea’Leona Douglas

Master in Filosofia

feminist epistemology, quantitative text analysis, rhetoric/discourse and media, comparative political philosophy;

Nohad Eltayeb

Master in Politica

Political geography, Political sociology

Eleni Evangelidi

PhD in Natural Sciences

cognitive neuroscience, psychology, philosophy of mind

Tiago Faleiro

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

philosophy of psychedelics, philosophy of religion, 4E CogSci

Stephen Felder

Non-Degree Researcher

Psychoanalysis, Hegel, Marx, Classics, Continental Philosophy

Alison “Ali” Forster

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Philosophy of Psychedelics, Kyoto School philosophy, French Phenomenology, Consciousness Studies, and Semiotics

Sofia Galli

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

multinsensoriality, cultural sociology, experimental literature, multimodal art

Jose Ruben Garcia

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

political theology, early modern political theory, continental philosophy

Mahima Garg

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Silence, auto-ethnography, desire & feminine, psychoanalytic practice from India, unconscious and Hindu philosophy

Eli Gold

Master in Teologia

theopoetics, ensoulment, erotic theology, queer theology, ecotheology, expanded animism, new materialisms, object vitality, beyond-human kinship, alterity studies, narratology, theogenic imagination, theogenic iconography, relics and reliquaries (divine bodies and evidences), the inhabited body and elective possession, ecstatic practices and the performativity of ceremony, ritual scripting, the haptics and somatics of prayer, microphenomenology in religious experience, rhetorical postures and functions in prayer (second person direct address as an aliving-gesture) …. and, essentially, post-secular theology reimagined as an artistic medium (by extension - the prospective use of active imagination and creative/poetic processes in possible approaches to chaplaincy).

Amy Gorissen

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Architectural Representation, Visual Culture, Architectural Collage, AI-generated Imagery, and Authorship & Originality

Andrew Grigiss

Master in Filosofia

Applied Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Ontologies, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of AI and Technology, Urban Humanities (space and place, etc), Non-Western Philosophy, Latin American and Modern Greek Philosophies, Cinema, and Aesthetics.

Vienna Hall

Master in Psicoanalisi

Sexuality, Psychoanalysis

Stu Hatton

Master in Psicoanalisi

Lacan, psychedelics, dialectics

Lucas Hergert

Master in Filosofia

Queer Theory, Philosophy of Violence, Bataille

Henry Holland

Master in Filosofia

Messianism; (Academic Study of) Western Esotericism; Nietzsche; Marx in 20th & 21st Centuries

Alham Hotaki

PhD in Natural Sciences

Daniel Hyer

Master in Psicoanalisi

paradox. Zen Buddhism. Tales and Myths. Parables.

Anand (Andy) Iyer

Master in Politica

History of Anarchism, Politics of Artificial Intelligence, Techno-fascism, Digital Colonialism, Techno-Collectivism, Anarcho-pacifism

Didar Kalafat

Master in Politica

Maria Kantardjieva

Master in Psicoanalisi

psychoanalysis and religion, political theology

Kevin B. Ketchmen

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Epistemology of AI, Ontology of AI, Political sciences, Philosophy, Technology

Vakhang Kezheradze

Master in Psicoanalisi

Matrixial theory; clinical aesthetics and ethics; Bionian and post-Bionian field theory; relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis; phenomenological psychopathology; Gestalt field theory; Tantric studies; psychoanalytic epistemology; psychic void and unformulated affect; embodiment and pre-reflective experience; collective melancholia and historical trauma; psychoanalytic cultural theory; post-Soviet subjectivity.

Brian Kraemer

Master in Politica

Decentralized digital technologies; non-hierarchal governance structures; heterodox economics; labor history; credit theory of money; anarchist theory

Gabriel Kruis

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Poetry and Psychoanalysis

Ercan Küçükoba

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

social work ,critical mathematical pedagogy

Shaifila Ladhani

 

Psychic Deadness and Retreats, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Group Analysis and Community Building, Intimacies, Envy, and Erotic Life, Postcolonial Theory and the Unconscious, Gender, Mourning, and Queer Presence

Maria Veronica Laguna

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Psychoanalysis, Borderland Theory, Phenomenology, Immigration, Diasporic Placemaking

Derek Lan

Master in Filosofia

Claudia Landolfi

Master in Filosofia

Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Modern Philosophy, Post-Structuralism, Art and Music, and Embodied Forms of Expression.

Samuel Eshleman Latimer

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

conflict management, adversarial collaboration, couples and family therapy, controversy in research, democracy

Ewa Tamar Lewandowska

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

STS, critical AI studies, ecofeminism, data ecofeminism, fear of becoming obsolete, AI ethics, embodiment

Irina Malinina

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

critical pedagogy, post-Soviet studies, embodied geographies, post-colonialism

Arun Melepurayil

Master in Psicoanalisi

Psychoanalysis and political economy, desire and market, commodity fetishism, death drive and financial markets

Fatemeh Naji Meydani

Non-Degree Researcher

Psychoanalysis and technology

Tessina Grant Moloney

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

human-centered artificial intelligence, LLM [mis]alignment, cyborg theory, cyborg anthropology, responsible AI, cybersocial AI risks, critical AI

Samuel Morales Jr.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Epistemology, philosophy of technology, AI ethics, digital forensics, science and technology studies

Alex Moyle

Master in Filosofia

Khwaja Navil

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

History, Economics, International Relations, Theology, Defense Studies

Jacqueline Neale

 

Photography, Historical Processes, Art & Psychoanalysis, Art History

Nicolas P. Nicoletti

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy of Science, Mathematics

Gizem Onay

Master in Politica

Andrés Orozco

Non-Degree Researcher

Joseph Phelan

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Institutional Theory, Organizational Theory, Game Theory, Regulatory Governance, Public Administration, and Strategic Management.

Henry (Rick) Poce

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

philosophical anthropology, critical theory, metaphysics, ethics, sports and performance psychology

Artemii Poniatovskii

Master in Teologia

contemporary theology, philosophy of religion, mysticism, non-creedal movements, New Thought

Tathagatan Ravindran

Non-Degree Researcher

Political subjectivities, racial formations, ideology, social movements, intersectionality

Alexander Read

Master in Psicoanalisi

The Big Other

Emma Roberts

Laurea in Studi Interdisciplinari

Systems, Power Dynamics/Power Inbalance, Propaganda, Myths, Communication

MAIVAND ROHANI

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Maiwand Rohani's research examines the long-term structural impact of protracted forced displacement on host-country society, politics, and governance, with a particular focus on the Syrian refugee presence in Türkiye as a constitutive condition of state-society relations rather than a temporary humanitarian crisis.

Tomas Samuel

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Religious Studies, Christian–Muslim relations, comparative theology, Islamic theology and philosophy, medieval Arabic Christian and Muslim thought, and interreligious dialogue.

Avi Sharma

Laurea in Studi Interdisciplinari

surveillance, digital privacy, neuroscience

Mercy Itohan Shoroye

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

The Culture of Silence in Healthcare: Exploring Clinician Non-Disclosure, Fear of Professional Repercussions, Diagnostic Errors, and Their Implications for Patient Safety and Healthcare Governance.

Gabriella Simpson

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Caribbean Studies, Black feminism, Political philosophy, Migration studies, Archival Studies, and Case Studies.

Eva Stenram

Non-Degree Researcher

psychoanalysis & art

Florin Stinga

Laurea in Studi Interdisciplinari

mathematics, epistemology

Orsolya Szőcs

Master in Filosofia

critical theory, existentialism, liberation theology

Jan Tappé

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Wittgenstein; philosophy of language; epistemology; formal philosophy; philosophy of mathematics; foundations and limits of formal systems; Frege; Russell; philosophical methodology

Lopini Tupou

Laurea in Studi Interdisciplinari

Political theology, Philosophical theories, law, politics, ethics, religious studies, institutional hierarchy, primitive culture & tradition and how they evolved, etc.

Justin Tyoakaa

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

National Security Intelligence and Ethics. Intelligence Elicitation & Rapport Narrative - State vs Human Rights. Impact of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and AI Tools on Security Management.

Helena Vissing

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

psychoanalysis, somatics, maternal studies, desire, death drive, disappointment

Kathryn Weber

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

history, gender studies, popular culture

Dr. Tiffany Wicks

Master in Teologia

Interfaith liberation theology, Palestine Peace and Justice, Political Theology

Philip Willatt

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Theology and ethics; biblical reception and interpretation; religion, literature and music; theology and the arts; compassion, neighbourliness and human responsibility; humanitarianism and social ethics; moral psychology and prosocial behaviour; religion and society; organisational values, culture and human behaviour.

Blanaid Wilson

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Personality development, individual differences, adolescent personality, emotional wellbeing, identity, resilience, relationships, and mental health.

Esther Zhang

Master in Politica

anarchism