Cristian Ciocan

Cristian Ciocan (Habilitation University of Bucharest 2015, PhD University of Paris IV – Sorbonne 2009, PhD University of Bucharest 2006) is currently a senior researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), and a member of the Doctoral School of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. He is President of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP), Vice-President  of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He was a lecturer at the University of Bucharest, Center of Excellence in Image Study (2016–2019), Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (2007–2008) and of the New Europe College (2009–2010). He is editor of the Newsletter of Phenomenology and the Newsletter of Romanian Philosophy, and coordinator of the Online Encyclopedia of the Romanian Philosophy. In 2009, he received the In hoc signo vinces prize for research excellence awarded by CNCSIS (Romanian National University Research Council); in 2018, he received the prize of the Senate of the University of Bucharest for the best journal in the Humanities. He was Principal Investigator on the following research projects: The Body In-Between: An Interdisciplinary Approach to an Integral Theory of Corporeal Phenomena (2010–2013); Phenomenological Approaches to the Anthropological Difference (2015–2017); The Structures of Conflict: A Phenomenological Approach to Violence (2017–2019), and Imagistic Violence: A Phenomenological Approach (2020–2023). He is currently the scientific manager of the research project The Life of the Heart: Phenomenology of Body and Emotions, coordinated by Natalie Depraz (2023–2026).