ATER in the History of Medieval Philosophy Chair, Ángela Beatriz Ávalos-Soto, born in Santiago, Chile, and recipient of a CONICYT scholarship for academic excellence, begins her fourth and final year of doctoral studies at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in September 2016. Her research, entitled "Personne, personnalité, sujet et subjectivité dans la philosophie de Pierre Abélard. La personne cognitive ou les fondements épistémologiques et noétiques de l'éthique abélardienne" is being carried out within the GRAMATA (Groupe de Recherches Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Transmission arabe) and under the supervision of Mr. Christophe Grellard (director of studies in the religious sciences section at the EPHE since 2014, succeeding Mr. Alain de Libera).
Ángela Beatriz Ávalos-Soto trained at the music conservatory of the Catholic University of Chile, specializing in musical composition (contemporary classical style) and classical dance. She also enrolled at the same university's Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Aesthetics. In 2008, she obtained her bachelor's degree in aesthetics (with highest distinction) for her work on the question of the status of sensitive experience in Spinoza: "Une lecture esthétique de l'Éthique de Spinoza" (An aesthetic reading of Spinoza's Ethics), a dissertation directed by Gabriel Castillo Fadic, Doctor of Philosophy of Art (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Since completing her Master's degree in Philosophy (History of Philosophy) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium,Ms. Ávalos-Soto has devoted her research to medieval studies, with a particular focus on the figure of Pierre Abélard. The psychological field and the question of the meeting of the moral act and the cognitive act within the person are at the heart of her philosophical interests; this, of course, leads her to the work of M. de Libera.
Ángela Beatriz is also the Spanish translator of Jean-Baptiste Brenet's Averroès l'Inquiétant (Belles Lettres, 2015) (forthcoming from Metales Pesados, Chile) and has been elected as secretary of the Association de Jeunes Chercheurs en Philosophie Médiévale STUDIUM in Paris for 2016.