As FWO Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, she runs a project
"Political authority and social justice. A philosophical study of Arthaśāstra”.
In 2022 she was a co-PI on the project
"Cross-cultural Conceptions of the Self: South Asia, Africa, and East Asia", awarded by the University of Birmingham’s Global Philosophy of Religion project supported by the John Templeton Foundation.
She specializes in Indian and Cross-Cultural Philosophy and her current comparative research focuses on the topics of epistemic authority and testimony, and South Asian debates over social justice in Indian philosophy and contemporary philosophy (epistemology, socio-political philosophy, and philosophy of religion). She is an executive board member of the Logic and Religion Association, LARA, and a steering committee member (2023-2028) of the Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion (GCPR) Program Unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR).
Previous academic appointments
- Lecturer for Theoretical and Comparative Philosophy (2019-2020) at the Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University, The Netherlands:
- Comparative Philosophy. Classical Readings in Indian and Chinese Philosophy, BA Global Philosophy.
- Epistemology, BA Global Philosophy.
- Philosophical Perspectives on Global Issues. Thematic seminar, BA International Studies.
- History of Philosophy and Introduction to Logic and Epistemology, LUC Den Haag.
- Gonda Research Fellow (2018-19) at the International Institute for Asian Studies, awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for a project “Imagination and appeal to reliability. Dharmakīrti’s polemics with Nyāya philosophers.”
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Doctoral Researcher (2013-17) at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium.
Special Research Fund (BOF): “Indian realism from a contemporary perspective.”
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Teaching Assistant (2008-11) at the Institute for the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.
Study History
After her MA degree in Philosophy (specialization: Philosophy of Mind, thesis: “Richard Swinburne's concept of the soul and his arguments for dualism”) from the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdansk, Poland, she completed Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Studies at the Institute for the Middle and Far East, Faculty of International and Political Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Postgraduate Diploma in Indian Philosophy and Religion at the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India (awarded by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Embassy of India in Warsaw).
She obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy with a specialization in Eastern Philosophy in April 2017 from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland (doctoral thesis: “The concept of causation in the philosophy of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika”).
Organizations
- Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion (GCPR) Unit of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Steering Committee Member (since December 2023-December 2028).
- Society for Yoga and Philosophy (SYP), Advisory Board Member, April 2023.
- Logic and Religion Association (LARA), Executive Board Member, Organising Committee of the "4th World Congress of Logic and Religion" 2023.
- Logic and Religion Association (LARA), Scientific Board Member, Organising Committee of the "3rd World Congress of Logic and Religion" 2022.
- Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle (CCPC) Member (since 05.2019). Organizing Team Member “14th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle (CCPC)”, 23-25.05.2019, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
- Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion, Experts’ Board, Participating Scholar (since 11.2017).
- Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) Member (since 01.2017). Organising Committee Member “50th Annual Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Conference”, Krakow, Poland, June 2018.
- Comparative and Global Philosophy, Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW), The Netherlands, Associated Member (since 07.2015).
- Indian philosophy blog. http://indianphilosophyblog.org/. Blog Contributor (since 01.2014).
Journals
- Sophia. International Journal of Philosophy and Traditions, Springer Netherlands, Editorial Board (since 09.2020).
- Argument: Biannual Philosophical Journal; Editorial Board. Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Pedagogical University of Cracow (since 11.2019).
- Journal of Dharma Studies. Philosophy, Theology, Ethics and Culture, Springer Netherlands, Associate Book Reviews Editor (Europe, South Asia) (since 11.2017).
Past:
- Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, State University of New York Press (SUNY), Associate Editor (04.2021-04.2022)
