Curriculum Vitae

I completed my PhD in Philosophy, Music and Classical Studies ar the University of London (Royal Holloway College) with a doctoral thesis about the philosophy of music in Neoplatonism and the notion of cosmic harmony in  Proclus’s Commentaries on Plato’s Timaeus and Republic, under the supervision of Prof.Dr. Anne Sheppard. My interdisciplinary research focuses on philosophical aesthetics, the interaction between the history of philosophy, classical studies, art theory, and specially on music as a symbolic and non-verbal language. My publications investigate the philosophical and anthropological implications of Pythagorean-Neoplatonic musical thought and the notion of harmony and cosmic music. Other topics include: music and metaphysics, the scala naturae and universal sympathy, the value of mythological language, the therapeutic and transformative power of music, music and metaphysics in the Platonic tradition, and also the influence and subsequent reception of these conceptions in metaphysics, ethics, politics, literature and cinema. I have recently collaborated with the Research Group of the Bibliotheca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas of the Pompeu Fabra University, with a postdoctoral scholarship, “Haas Fellowship”, to carry out a project on the reception of the neoplatonic cosmological and musical symbolism in Llull, Fludd and Kircher. I have also collaborated with the Eugenio Trías Center  of Philosophical Studies  of the same university, with a postdoctoral fellowship in collaboration with the La Caixa Foundation, to investigate Eugenio Trías’ philosophy of music and his revaluation of Pythagorean and Platonic philosophy for the integration harmonica of art and philosophy, especially understanding music as thought.

I have taught Medieval Philosophy, Ancient and Medieval Aesthetics, Aesthetics of Romanticism, at Pompeu Fabra University, and Rhetoric and Stylistics in the Master’s Degree in Literary Journalism, Communication and Humanities at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.