CV | Donata Schoeller

Habilitation, University of Koblenz, 2017 (Close Talking: Erleben zur Sprache bringen.)
Ph.D. in Philosophy on “Humility” (summa cum laude), University of Zurich, 1996
Bachelor and Master in Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Universities of Vienna, Oxford, Zurich, 1985–1990

Academic Director TECT (Training Embodied Critical Thinking) Erasmus + Strategic Partnership in Higher Education with the Universities of Iceland, Groningen, Jena, Ljubljana, Technion Haifa, ETH Zurich
Interim Professorship, University of Koblenz, Summer term 2020
Fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, 2019-2020
Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Iceland, since 2018
Project manager of the international research project “Embodied Critical Thinking,” University of Iceland in cooperation with University Aarhus, DePaul University, Micro-Phenomenology Laboratory, 2018
Senior Lecturer University of Koblenz, since 2017
Visiting Professor at the Philosophy Department, DePaul University, Chicago, 2014–15/2017
Visiting Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 2012–2014
Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department, Columbia University, New York, 2012
Fellow, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar, 2010
Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department, ETH Zurich, 2007–2013
Coordinator and Program Director “Science and Wisdom,“ Center for Continuous Education, University of Zurich, since 2001
Assistant researcher at the Philosophy Department (Prof. H. Holzhey, Prof. G. Kohler), University of Zurich, 1994–2000
Journalist and Film director (ARD, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tagesspiegel Berlin, Kulturmagazin DU), 1990–1999

Training in the Micro-Phenomenological Research Method, with Prof. C. Petitmengin in Paris, 2013–2016Training in Thinking-at-the–Edge and Focusing, (First-and-second person practices to engage tacit dimensions of experience and implicit knowledge) with Prof. E. Gendlin, New York, and other teachers in Switzerland, Germany and the US, 2004–2010
Training in Thinking-at-the–Edge and Focusing, (First-and-second person practices to engage tacit dimensions of experience and implicit knowledge) with Prof. E. Gendlin, New York, and other teachers in Switzerland, Germany and the US, 2004–2010
Teaching Embodied Integrative Thinking/Embodied Critical Thinking workshops at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, University of Chicago, DePaul University in Chicago, Technion, Haifa etc., since 2009

Principal investigator and project manager of Embodied Critical Thinking, University of Iceland, Aarhus University, DePaul University, Micro-Phenomenology Laboratory, since 2018
Member of the Think-tank Micro-Phenomenology and Contemplative Experience: Exploring the Intra- and Intersubjective Dynamics of Language and Embodied Experience, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, January 2017
Research-Member of the Micro-Phenomenology Laboratory, Paris, 2016–present
Member of the Peer Mentoring Project Philosophische Kehrseiten, University of Zurich, 2009–2011
Founding-member of the Lehrhaus für das Denken der Religionen Heidelberg, 2002–present
Initiator and director of the Interdisciplinary Forum on the Limits of Conceptual Thinking, University of Zurich, 2002–2004