I am a Blacker Loewe Research Fellow in Philosophy at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. From September 2025, I will be a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the History of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. I recently completed my DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (2023), which was awarded the Oxford Nicolas Berggruen Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, Law & Politics (2024). Prior to my doctorate, I completed a Master of Studies in Ancient Philosophy at Oxford (2018) and a BA in Classics and Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (2017).
My primary research interests are in classical Chinese philosophy (especially Daoism), ancient Greek philosophy (especially early Greek philosophy and Hellenistic scepticism), and the global history and historiography of philosophy. I also have active interests in the European reception of Chinese and Greek philosophy, and in early modern European and Ethiopian philosophy. I was awarded the 2022 British Journal for the History of Philosophy Beaney Prize for the best contribution to widening the philosophical canon, for my paper on Thales in the historiography of philosophy. I have also written about the early Greek philosopher Parmenides, the classical Chinese text Zhuangzi, and the European reception of Daoism. Born to a Belgian mother and an American father, I grew up bilingual (in French and English) in Brussels, Belgium. Outside of my research I am strongly committed to promoting cross-departmental discussion of marginalized philosophical traditions. During my studies I founded Philiminality, a student-run platform for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary philosophy. You can find my cv here.
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