Collaborations
Giuseppe Vitale
(PhD Student at Universität zu Köln and University College of Dublin)
After a Bachelor's Degree in Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Giuseppe received his Master's Degree in Philosophy at the University of Macerata. Under the supervision of professors Fiorella Retucci, Andreas Speer and Dragos Calma, he is currently writing a dissertation on the Neoplatonic commentary on Proclus' Elements of Theology by the 14th century Dominican Berthold of Moosburg: this work represents the apex of the integration of Proclean metaphysics within the highly receptive German Dominican milieu revolving around the Order's studium generalis founded by Albert the Great in Cologne. He is also Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (graduate assistant) in The Hebrew-Latin Translation of Maimonides: The Critical Edition of the Dux neutrorum (Die hebräisch-lateinische Übersetzung des Maimonides: Die kritische Edition des Dux neutrorum) directed by Diana Di Segni.
Stephen Hyun Sok Chung
(Research Fellow in Medical Humanities & Social Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea)
After being granted his BA(1996) and his first MA(1998) in Philosophy at Yonsei University, Korea, he received his second MA in Philosophy(2003) from Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He then earned his Ph.D. at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) under the supervision of Ruedi Imbach on the theory of the soul in Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas(2010). He has completed post-doctoral programs at Yonsei University, Korea(2011-12), and The Catholic University of Korea(2012-2013), and worked as Research Professor at The Catholic University of Korea(2013-2016). He is now Research Fellow in Medical Humanities & Social Sciences, The Catholic University of Korea. His main interest lies in philosophical psychology and metaphysics of Western Europe in the Middle Ages.
Rodrigo Ballon Villanueva
(Postgraduate student at University of Navarra and the University of Castilla - La Mancha)
Rodrigo Ballon is a Collaborator at the Institute of Medieval Studies of the University of Navarra (Spain), where he received a BA in Philosophy in 2018. After graduating, he taught at the Faculty of Theology Redemptoris Mater and at the Major Seminary San José of Lurin, in Peru, where he started a BA in Ecclesiastical Philosophy in 2012. Currently, he is finishing a postgraduate diploma in Recovery and Transmission of Greco-Latin and Arabic Scientific Textual Heritage at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is a member of the Dominicus Gundissalinus Working Group, an initiative aiming to provide access to the work of the Toledan author and promote its study. His research has been focused on Medieval Neoplatonism in authors such as Boethius, Isidore of Seville, Gottschalk of Orbais, and, especially, John Scotus Eriugena.
Ezequiel Ludueña
(Assistant Professor, University of Buenos Aires)
Ezequiel Ludueña is research and Assistant Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) where he teaches History of Medieval Philosophy and Philosophical Latin. He graduated with a PhD on Berthold of Moosburg, directed by Claudia D’Amico (UBA-UNLP-CONICET). He published it as a monograph: La recepción de Eriúgena en Bertoldo de Moosburg (Saarbrucken, 2013). He also has translated many works of medieval philosophy, including works by Eriugena, Eckhart, and Albert the Great, focusing mainly on the Platonic Tradition. He has also published: Eriugena (2016). He is currently working on two translations: a Spanish version of the Liber viginti quattuor philosophorum, and one of the De praedestinatione liber by Eriugena.
Marialuigia Scotton
(PhD student at Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena, Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi "Scienze della Cultura" and Université Paris-Sorbonne, Centre Léon Robin de recherches sur la pensée antique, 2017-2020)
After earning her BA in Philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Verona (2012), Marialuigia Scotton received a MA in Philosophical Sciences from the Università degli Studi di Padova (2015). The main frame of her research is about the relationship between Platonic tradition and Christian thought in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. She took a one-year postgraduate specialization course in Cultural Sciences at the Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi of Fondazione Collegio San Carlo in Modena (2016), from which she was also awarded a PhD fellowship (2017). She is writing a thesis under co-tutelage agreement with the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Centre Léon Robin de recherches sur la pensée antique). Her doctoral research, supervised by Prof.ssa Maria Grazia Crepaldi (Università degli Studi di Padova) and Mme Anca Vasiliu (CNRS/Université Paris-Sorbonne/ENS), focuses on the influence of Neoplatonic philosophy and of Galen's psychophysiology in the De natura hominis by Nemesius of Emesa. Marialuigia Scotton spent a six-month research period in Dublin (2019-2020), equally working under the supervision of Prof John Dillon (Trinity College Dublin).
Socrates-Athanasios Kiosoglou
(PhD student at KU Leuven / visiting student at UCD, 2020-2021)
After receiving a BA in Philosophy and Classics and an MA in the History of Philosophy at the University of Athens, he is now working on a PhD thesis at KU – Leuven, focusing on Proclus’ geometrical method of presentation and its reception up until the Renaissance. Towering figures such as Boethius, Nicolas of Methone and Marsilio Ficino shall be involved in an attempt to reconstruct the reception and appreciation of Proclus’ application of the method of geometers to metaphysics. In particular, this PhD research is conducted within the context of the project “Axiomatic-deductive method and more geometrico presentation in Proclus”, which is carried out by Jan Opsomer and Pieter d’ Hoine and funded by KU Leuven, Internal Research Funds.
Álvaro Campillo Bo
(Irish Research Council Fully-funded PhD student at UCD, 2019-2023)
After earning his BA in Philosophy at the University de Murcia, Spain (2013), he was awarded a full scholarship in Accademia Vivarium Novum, Rome (2013-2016) where he followed a whole curriculum taught in ancient Greek and Latin. He earned the first MA in History of Ideas (2015) with a dissertation written in Latin on late Renaissance and Baroque thought, and a second MA in Teaching Philosophy (2017) from University of Murcia. His PhD program at UCD is fully-funded by the Irish Research Council. He writes a dissertation under the supervision of Dragos Calma on the legacy of Proclus’ Commentary on Euclid’s Elements in Medieval and Renaissance philosophical and mathematical thought, including the analysis of unexplored Latin sources.
Tommaso Ferro
(PhD student at Università del Salento and Universität zu Köln, 2017-2020 / visiting student at UCD in 2019-2020)
After earning his BA in “Philosophy” (2012) and his MA in “Philosophical Sciences” (2016) at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Tommaso Ferro received a PhD fellowship at the Università del Salento and the Universität zu Köln in 2017 (double degree). He defended a Master’s thesis on the philosophy of Meister Eckhart under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Giovanni Catapano. His doctoral research project focuses on the reception of the concept of “causa essentialis” among the philosophers of the “Dominican School of Cologne”, in particular Albertus Magnus and Ulrich of Strasbourg. His tutors are Prof. Dr. Alessandra Beccarisi from the Università del Salento and Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Andreas Speer from the Thomas-Institut der Universität zu Köln. Currently, Tommaso Ferro is spending a six-month period at UCD as visiting PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Dragos Calma. The aim of his research consists in investigating the influence of the Neoplatonic tradition on the philosophers of the Studium founded by Albertus Magnus in Cologne.
Louis Jansen
(research student at UCD - 2019-2020)
Studying for the Master's degree in Philosophy at the École normale supérieure (Paris), he is spending one year as a research student at UCD in order to work on textual sources of medieval thought concerning the notion of participation.