Team

Dragos Calma (Principal Investigator / Associate Professor at UCD)

studied philosophy at the University “Babes-Bolyai” in Cluj-Napoca, Romania (BA in 2001), at the École normale supérieure, Paris (2001-2003), at the University Panthéone-Sorbonne (MA in 2002) and University of Sorbonne (MPhil in 2003, PhD in 2008). He held fellowships at the University of Sorbonne (the Fritz Thyssen Foundation), at the Warburg Institute (the A.W. Mellon Foundation), at the University of Bonn (the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) and at the University of Cambridge (the British Academy and the Royal Society). He directed major research grants awarded by the Romanian National Council at the University “Babes-Bolyai” (2011-2016) and by the French National Research Agency at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (2013-2017). In 2018, he was awarded the Friederich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Ad Asta Excellence in Research Prize and was elected member of the Young Academy of Europe.

Elizabeth Curry (Research Assistant at UCD, 2019-2023)

comes to the NeoplAT project with a background in Liberal Arts and Classics. Her role within the NeoplAT project takes the form of administrative support of the research, including editorial assistance in the preparation of publications, oversight of financial transactions and purchasing, website and social media management, reporting, and the coordination and organisation of conferences and other activities relating to the project.

Giovanna Bagnasco (Researcher at UCD, 2022-2023)

After studying philosophy and classical literature at the University of Pavia, Italy, I continued my studies at the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg (Switzerland) and in 2013 I completed my PhD in medieval philosophy under the direction of Professor Ruedi Imbach (Sorbonne-Paris IV, France) and Professor Carla Casagrande (University of Pavia, Italy). I am particularly interested in the philosophy of Heymericus de Campo, Flemish author of the fifteenth century and friend and teacher of Nicholas of Cusa, because of the particular attention that Heymericus shows in the doctrines of Albertus Magnus, Nicholas of Cusa, Alain of Lille and Ramon Llull. I have recently published for Brepols the Centheologicon of Heymericus de Campo in the Corpus Christianorum (2020). Within the project NeoplAT, I have undertaken the transcription and study of another work of Heymericus, the De formis intentionalibus, a treatise of metaphysics and logic, investigating the question of the intentionality of sensible and intelligible forms in knowledge. I am also a teacher at the Classical High School of Mantova (Italy).

Odile Gilon (Chargé de cours en philosophie médiévale, Université libre de Bruxelles / Researcher at UCD, 2021-2023)

After having studied philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), she graduated with a PhD on the metaphysics of Duns Scotus ("Indifférence de l’essence et métaphysique chez Jean Duns Scot"), co-directed by Olivier Boulnois (EPHE, Paris) in 2009 and published in 2012 (with Ousia). She is currently teaching philosophy in several schools in Brussels (HEFF, ISURU) and medieval matters at ULB. The main frame of her research is about metaphysics in the Franciscan school, history of melancholia and attention.
Within the NeoplAT project she will revise the Latin edition, provide the first-ever French translation and running commentary of an early 13th-century commentary on the Book of Causes, generally attributed to Roger Bacon.

Jonathan Greig (Postdoctoral Fellow, Academy of Sciences in Vienna, 2019-2021).

pursued his masters (MSc, MSc by Research) at the University of Edinburgh and PhD at the LMU Munich (Munich School of Ancient Philosophy), where he focused on the first cause in the two late Neoplatonists, Proclus and Damascius. Within the project, he studies the reception of Proclus’ notion of divine causality and the first principle in the late Byzantines (11-14th cent’s. A.D.), with special focus on the Byzantine commentator on Proclus, Nicholas of Methone.

Evan King Research Scientist at UCD (2019-2023)

Evan King (Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD, 2019-2023)

after receiving a BA in Classics (2010), he completed his MA in Classics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, in 2012, writing a thesis on the metaphysics of the transcendentals in Meister Eckhart. In 2017, he graduated with a PhD in Divinity at Clare College, Cambridge (UK), with a dissertation on the sources, motivations, and coherence of the Exposition on the Elements of Theology of Proclus by Berthold of Moosburg. From 2016-2017, he was an Affiliated Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge and from 2017-2019 he has taught as Faculty Fellow in the Humanities at the University of King's College and in Classics and Religious Studies at Dalhousie. Within the NeoplAT project, he will focus on the sources and reception of Berthold of Moosburg's Exposition.

Maria Evelina Malgieri (Postdoctoral Fellow at UCD, 2018-2021)

studied classics and philosophy at the University of Bari (2004-2009), where she also hold her PhD (2013). She was post-doctoral researcher at the Advanced School of Historical Studies (University of San Marino/ 2013-2016) and held a research fellowship at the University of Münster (2017). She is currently achieving the critical edition of the Quaestiones super Metaphysicam attributed to Henry of Ghent. Within the ERC project, she studies the reception of the Book of Causes on the theories of being in the 13th-century debates, both in published and unpublished texts, notably the various interpretation of the famous proposition IV: “the first of created things is being”.

Iulia Szekely Research Scientist at UCD (2018-2023)

Iulia Székely (Research Scientist at UCD, 2018-2023)

received a BA in Literature and a BA in Philosophy from the University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca (Romania), before being accepted at École nationale des chartes (Paris) in 2012. She obtained an MA in History (2016) from the University Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and graduated as Archivist-paleographer of École nationale des chartes in 2018, with a thesis entitled: The Quodlibetal Questions in the Universities of Prague and Erfurt. A Case Study : the Eucharistic Controversies and the Importance of the Treatise Liber de causis. She is specialised in medieval Latin paleography, codicology, ecdotique and intellectual history. Within the ERC project, she will unearth new manuscripts, provide codicological descriptions of them and produce a new, reliable critical edition of the Book of Causes. Read more...

Matthew Vanderkwaak (PhD student at UCD, 2019-2023)

obtained a BA in Humanities at Briercrest Bible College (2015) and MA in Classics at Dalhousie University, Halifax (2018). At UCD he prepares a PhD in Medieval Philosophy on the concept of "noble soul" in the Latin West. His research examines the concept in the Book of Causes as a translation of Proclus’ “divine soul,” and the reception and impact of this modification from the 13th-15th centuries. This study ranges from the published and unpublished commentaries on the Book of Causes to Berthold of Moosburg's Commentary on Proclus's Elements of Theology, and other relevant texts.