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Marina Christodoulou

Lecturer in Philosophy
School of Business, Social & Decision Sciences
Email Address
mchristodo@constructor.university
Website
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/MChristodoulou

I have been awarded a Dr.Phil in Philosophy (2022) in a co-supervision (co-tutelle) between the Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Austria) and the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (France), for which I received a distinction as well as the Georges Bastide Prize of the French Academy in Toulouse.

I have held multiple postdoctoral fellowships in Philosophy, such as at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa (African Phenomenology), The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Ontological Exhaustion and Fatigue), the Center for Advanced Studies - South East Europe (Violence against Women), and at the University of Exeter (Fatigue and exhaustion within Philosophy of Science). I am also currently completing my MBA in Digital Business Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Lapland, Finland, and I am also about to start studying for a Master’s in Digital Humanities at Linnaeus University, Sweden.

I have taught as a visiting Lecturer at the University of Klagenfurt (Ancient Philosophy, Gender, Feminism, and other), at the University of Nicosia (Medical Ethics), and at the University of Limassol (Business Ethics & Sustainability), before coming to Constructor University, Bremen in 2024.

I have previously studied at the University of Cyprus, completed an MSc in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, a MSc in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and a Diploma in Digital Filmmaking at SAE Athens. I have also attended a psychotherapy counselling training at a Psychotherapeutic Centre in Athens. I have also completed three postgraduate university diplomas (Diplômes Universitaires) in France on the topics of Philosophy of Psychiatry (Toulouse III), Gender Practices: Education, Medicine, Psychoanalysis and Society (Paris VII), on Addictions- Addictology (Paris VII), and a Zertifikat “Gender-Wissen” in Klagenfurt, too.

I was also a free auditor for a number of seminars at the EHESS [École des hautes études en sciences sociales] and I have participated and gave talks to a vast number of conferences, seminars, and summer schools all over Europe, and I have I have published more than 20 papers (including articles, books chapters, and conference proceedings). I am currently editing two volumes for Angelaki Journal and Routledge on my current project on “Ontological Exhaustion”, among other publications I am preparing for. This is also my habilitation project, which will be published as a monograph.

Research Interests

Areas of specialization

Post-Kantian Continental Philosophy [esp. German Idealism, Phenomenology, Poststructuralism], Ontology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Theory, Feminism-Gender Studies, Philosophy and Literature, Aesthetics of Philosophical Writing and Style, Philology and Philosophy (esp. the case of Nietzsche), Film and Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy

Areas of competence

Social and (Inter-)Cultural Philosophy, Bio-Philosophy, Posthumanism, Ecological Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, French Spiritualism, Philosophy of Life-Lebensphilosophie

[Bergson, Jonas, Hadot, von Uexküll, and others]

University Education
2016-2022Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt & Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Dr.Phil. Philosophy
(Supervisors: Alice Pechriggl and Jérôme Lèbre)
Thesis Title: "Life as Addiction"
Successfully defended on 17 June 2022 with a distinction (Grade 1)
 Recipient of the Prix Georges BASTIDE de L’Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de Toulouse (Sujet de discipline philosophique)
2020-2022EHESS [École des hautes études en sciences sociales]
Auditor (Auditrice Libre)
Seminars in Philosophy, Anthropology, Mental Health, Gender
2021-2022Université de Paris (Paris 7 Diderot)
DU (Diplôme Universitaire) Addictions : Cliniques des Risques et Dépendances
2020-2021Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt
Zertifikat “Gender –Wissen”
Grade: 1 ("Sehr gut")
2020-2021Université de Paris (Paris 7 Diderot)
DU (Diplôme Universitaire) Pratiques de Genre: Éducation, Medecine, Psychanalyse et Société
[Postgraduate University Diploma: Gender Practices: Education, Medicine, Psychoanalysis and Society]
2019-2020DIU (Diplôme Inter-Universitaire) de “Philosophie de la Psychiatrie”
[Postgraduate Inter-University Diploma: Philosophy of Psychiatry]
(Universities of Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Marseille)
2012-2014SAE Athens
Diploma in Digital Filmmaking
2009-2011University of Edinburgh
MSc in Film Studies
2008-2009University of Edinburgh
MSc in Ancient Philosophy
2004 - 2008University of Cyprus 
Department of Classics & Philosophy
BA Hons in Philosophy
Supervisors: Inna Kupreeva, Martine Beugnet, Alice Pechriggl, and Jérôme Lèbre
Research and Teaching Positions
2024-2027Lecturer in Philosophy 
Constructor University, Bremen, Germany
2024-2025Research Fellow 
Centre of Advanced Studies Iméra 
Aix-Marseille Université 
Project: “Ontological Exhaustion: Being-Tired, and Tired-of-Being: a 
phenomenology of fatigue, exhaustion, and burnout. Considerations on 
Contemporary Work/Labour”
2023 – 2024Adjunct Lecturer in Philosophy and in Philosophy and Gender 
[Lehrauftrag in Philosophie & Genderforschung] 
Institut für Philosophie & Universitätszentrum für Frauen*- und 
Geschlechterstudien (UZF*G) 
University of Klagenfurt, Austria
2023-2024Visiting Assistant Professor in Medical Ethics 
School of Medicine 
University of Nicosia (UNIC), Cyprus
2023-2024Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Sustainability 
CIIM Business School 
University of Limassol (UoL), Cyprus
10/2023 – 11/20232023/2024 EPSA Fellow 
Visiting fellow of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) 
4th Cohort of EPSA Fellows 
https://philsci.eu/fellowships 
Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter 
Supervision: Prof. Sabina Leonelli (Director of Egenis) 
(Areas: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Life Sciences, Cognitive and 
Biomedical Sciences, Genomics, Data Technology, Environmental Data Science, 
Open Science, Artificial Intelligence) 
Research on the project “Ontological Exhaustion” 
Active involvement in Conferences, Seminars, and Research Groups at Egenis 
(“Egenis Research Exchange”, “Neurodiversity Reading Group”, “Philosophy 
Colloquium”) 
Egenis Research Exchange (ERE) seminar on my own Project
01/2023 – 06/2023Visiting Spring CAS SEE Research Fellow 
Center for Advanced Studies - South East Europe 
University of Rijeka, Croatia 
Dir. Petar Bojanić; permanent and honorary fellows include Alenka Zupančič, 
Nenad Miščević, Erol Bilibani, Maurizio Ferraris, Libby Morris, Peter Eisenman, 
Michael Walzer, and others) in partnership with the Institute for Philosophy and 
Social Theory in Belgrade]− including 1 week stay (Project Surgery) at Moise 
Palace at Cres −. 
Fellowship Project: “End of Violence” from various disciplinary perspectives 
Personal Project: “How to Kill a Woman in the Real and in Art: Violence against 
Women in Fiction and ‘Non-Fiction’” 
Organizing a series of seminars/talks with guests, writing an essay on violence, 
and organizing a public event.
12/2022 – 07/2024Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy 
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) 
Project on “Ontological Exhaustion” 
Supervision: Ass.-Prof. Sylvia Borissova
07/2022 –12/2022Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy (visiting, non-stipendiary) 
Department of Philosophy, University of Fort Hare, South Africa 
Research in (African) Phenomenology, and African Philosophy 
Supervision: Prof. Abraham Olivier
09/2017 – 06/2022Doctoral Research 
Department of Philosophy, University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France (co- 
supervision with the University of Klagenfurt)
11/2015 – 06/2022Doctoral Research 
Department of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Austria (co-supervision with 
the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès)
Fellowships and Awards
03/2024Nominated as a Research Fellow at Iméra, University of Aix-Marseille, for 2024. Kindly 
declined for a lectureship position at Constructor University Bremen.
02-04/2024European Commission: Invited Participant/Discussant, among 150 European Citizens: 
three 3-day meetings in Brussels for a discussion of sustainability issues in the European 
Union. (February-April 2024)
06/2023Prix Georges BASTIDE de L'Académie des Sciences, Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres de 
Toulouse pour la Thèse « La Vie comme Addiction » [“Life as Addiction”], 
https://www.academie-sciences-lettres-toulouse.fr
04/2023Shortlisted for the Moritz Schlick Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSECP) [Metaphysics, 
Ontology] at the University of Vienna
07/2023Nominated as a Visiting fellow of the European Philosophy of Science Association 
(EPSA) at the University of Exeter (Egenis): 10/2023 – 11/2023
01/2023Nominated as a Visiting Spring CAS SEE Fellow at Center for Advanced Studies - South 
East Europe (University of Rijeka, Croatia; dir. Petar Bojanić) [in partnership with the 
Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory in Belgrade
12/2022Nominated as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences 
(BAS) in Sofia, Bulgaria
07/2022Nominated as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, 
University of Fort Hare, South Africa
06/2008Department of Classics & Philosophy Prize (Valedictorian).
Selected Publications