Dr. Andreea Lemnaru-Espuna
Philosopher of religions & scholar

Dr. Andreea Lemnaru-Espuna (PhD in Philosophy, Paris Sorbonne Université-EPHE, 2022) is an international scholar and philosopher of religions and nature from Paris, France.

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She is the leader of the research project "Cosmic Sympathy in Neoplatonism" financed by the Austrian Science Fund at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna.

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Dr. Lemnaru-Espuna specializes in the study of ancient Platonic philosophy, both pagan and early Christian. She is also interested in German Idealism and Asian philosophy.

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She published a number of studies in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes on theurgy in Iamblichus; Non-Being, first principles and cosmogony; Mithras in Porphyry; the afterlife in Neoplatonism; nature and the World Soul and primordial feminine deities.

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She is an associate member of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism (University of Cambridge), and of the Centre Léon Robin (Paris Sorbonne University). Besides, Lemnaru-Espuna chairs the Neoplatonism, Religions and Theurgy research group of the Foro di Studi Avanzati Gaetano Massa (Rome).

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She is the lead editor of Initiatic Religious Experience in Neoplatonism, Mimesis Edizioni, 2023, co-edited with L. Albanese, J.-M. Zamora Calvo and Giuseppe Muscolino.

Her monograph is currently in press, as well as a second collective volume.

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​She taught Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and was an invited professor at the University of Sichuan, China in 2024. In 2025-2026 for a course on "Nature and the Divine in Philosophy", and taught a course on "Eros, divine madness and the soul's immortality in Plato" at the University of Vienna.

 

Dr. Lemnaru-Espuna is an international regular speaker in world leading universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, London and Rome.

 

She is fluent in French (native), English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German, reading ancient Greek and Latin, with notions in Chinese and Japanese.

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