Dr. Andreea Lemnaru-Espuna
Philosopher of religions & scholar

Dr. Andrea-Maria Lemnaru-Espuna is a French philosopher of religions and nature. She leads the research project Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism, funded by the Austrian Science Fund at the University of Vienna.

She has published extensively on religious experience and the representation of nature in Neoplatonism, enthusiasm and divine inspiration, the World Soul, the relationship between Being and Non-Being, as well as the Corpus Hermeticum, the Greek Magical Papyri, and the Chaldean Oracles. She is the lead editor of Initiatic Religious Experience in Neoplatonism (Mimesis Edizioni, 2023).

She teaches Philosophy at the University of Vienna and has held an invited professorship at the University of Sichuan.

Dr. Lemnaru-Espuna is an associate member of the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Platonism, Faculty of Divinity, where she was a scholar in residence in 2022.

Her research is regularly presented at leading international institutions, including Paris, Cambridge, Oxford, London, Rome, and Kyoto.