Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
PhD in Philosophy
2021 - 2026
University of Coimbra
Thesis: “The subject to come: the animal and animality in the deconstruction of carnophallogocentric subjectivity” (title in translation), supervised by Dr. Fernanda Bernardo
My PhD project was awarded funding for 4 years by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) through the PhD grant 2022.09478.BD
MA in Philosophy
2019 - 2021
University of Porto
Concentration in Contemporary Philosophy
Dissertation: “On Identity, Difference, and Responsibility: the human and the animal (animot) in Derrida” (title in translation), supervised by Dr. Sofia Miguens
Ranked 1st out of 7 students in the master’s degree
BA in Philosophy
2016 - 2019
University of Porto
Ranked 2nd out of 27 students in the bachelor's degree
Associate Fellow
Since May 2026
Fellowship awarded by invitation
Collaborating Member
Since July 2024
2026
Ascetic Vegetarianism’s Zoophobia: the case of Plutarch and Porphyry, Environmental Philosophy, Advance online publication. doi: 10.5840/envirophil2026611157
2026
“Can they suffer?”: rereading Bentham’s question through Derrida, Journal of Animal Ethics 16 (1): 96-108. doi: 10.5406/21601267.16.1.10
2025
The Experience of Cinema as an Experience of Ethics in Derrida. In Derrida and Film Studies (ed. Kamil Lipiński and Andrzej Marzec), 221-236, Brill Academic Publishers. doi: 10.1163/9789004729186_015
2022
Arguing for Vegetarianism: (symbolic) ingestion and the (inevitable) absent referent — intersecting Jacques Derrida and Carol J. Adams, Between the Species, 25 (1), 63-79. Available at: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol25/iss1/5
2022
Instrução e Corrupção Moral pela Literatura: engajamento emocional e o valor epistémico da arte narrativa, Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 31 (61), 59-74. doi: 10.14195/0872-0851_61_3
2021
Book Review of Beyond the Anthropological Difference by Matthew Calarco, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 29 (3), 416-420. doi: 10.1080/09672559.2021.1939497
2025
(October) « Vivre (bien) ensemble avec les animaux »: Derrida e o sujeito por vir. Congresso Internacional Jacques Derrida e a desconstrução: promessas e desafios (International Conference Jacques Derrida and Deconstruction: Promises and Chalenges). University of Évora, Évora (Portugal)
(July) ““Vivre (bien) ensemble avec les animaux”: Derrida and the subject-to-come”. Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference. King’s College, London (UK)
(May) “Eating the Animal Within: thinking carnivorous sacrifice and human fraternalism with Derrida”. The Politics of not Eating Animals. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2024
(November) “The 'self' as creature and the question of the animal”. Jornada de Estudo: Pensar & Viver de outro modo que ser. Em torno de Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence (Journée d’Étude : Penser & vivre autrement qu’être. Autour d’Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence). University of Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal)
(August) ““Can they suffer?”: re-reading Bentham’s question through Derrida”. Oxford Animal Ethics Summer School – “Animal Thinkers: Celebrating the Pioneers of Ethical Sensitivity to Animals”. Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Merton College, Oxford (UK)
2023
(December) “Zoofobia, ou a sacralização do humano”. Jornada de Estudo: A Paixão (do) Animal. Derrida e a desconstrução da tradição sacrificialista (Journée d’Étude: La passion (de l') animal. Derrida et la déconstruction de la tradition sacrificialiste). University of Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal)
2022
(November) “O Humano e/é o Animal: desconstruir a ex-pulsão fóbica do corpo e da animalidade no logo-antropocentrismo”. Pós-Hum3no: Entrelaçamentos & Intersecções num Mundo Pós-Humano. University of Porto, Porto (Portugal)
(October) “Ser Humano-Animal Humano: desconstruir o carno-falo-logocentrismo para afirmar a animalidade”. Colóquio internacional e interdisciplinar Regresso à animalidade: posturas teóricas, abordagens culturais e manifestações artísticas. NOVA University of Lisbon, Lisbon (Portugal)
(April) “The Shapes of Identity: Circle and Ellipse — deconstructing (human) subjectivity to establish ethical relations between human and animal beings”. Great Lakes Philosophy Conference: Identity and Ethics. Siena Heights University, Michigan (USA) (online)
2023
(December) Jornada de Estudo: A Paixão (do) Animal. Derrida e a desconstrução da tradição sacrificialista (Journée d’Étude: La passion (de l') animal. Derrida et la déconstruction de la tradition sacrificialiste). University of Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal)
Keynote speakers: Gérard Bensussan, Jolán Orbán and János Boros
2023, November 2nd — Lecture on the anthropocentric and humanistic limits of E. Levinas’ philosophy (Ethics, BA in Philosophy at the University of Coimbra)
Ad hoc reviewer for Between the Species
Portuguese (native)
English (fluent)
French (very good reading competence, good speaking competence)
Spanish (very good reading competence)