Board Members
Astrid Wagner
Secretary
Dr. Astrid Wagner is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, where she currently serves as Deputy Director. She joined CSIC in 2018 as Tenured Scientist. From 2008 to 2021 she was Associate Researcher at the Berlin Center for Knowledge Research. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy at Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), where she taught for approximately 20 years. Her main research areas are philosophy of culture, philosophy of science and epistemology, with a sustained focus on their ethical implications.
Over the last decade her work has concentrated on the challenges of digital societies, including post-truth, polarization, pseudo-scepticism, cognitive vulnerability and digital citizenship. She combines conceptual and normative analysis with close attention to scientific practice and public communication. This has resulted in a consistent publication record (a total of 80 publications), most of them in peer-reviewed journals and high-impact book series (e.g. De Gruyter, SPI Q1) and in interdisciplinary collaborations, including a co-authored article in Scientific Reports (JCR Q1) on conceptual models in molecular evolution. She has edited books and a special issue of Dilemata, and her monograph-level editorial work includes Abel im Dialog (two volumes, 1500 pp., De Gruyter 2018) and Rationality Reconsidered (De Gruyter 2016).
She has extensive experience in leading and participating in competitive research projects at national and regional level (participation in 18 competitive research projects, 5 as principal investigator.). She is currently principal investigator (co-PI) of the project INconRES (Uncertainty, trust and responsibility. Ethical-epistemological keys to the new social dynamics in the digital age, PID2020-117219GB-I00) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and PI for CSIC in the interdisciplinary project ORTEGA-CM (Technological innovation applied to the research, dissemination and transfer of the legacy of José Ortega y Gasset, PHS-2024/PH-HUM-57) funded by the Community of Madrid. She previously coordinated the RESPONTRUST project on uncertainty, trust and responsibility during the COVID-19 pandemic (NextGenerationEU/PRTR, PTI+ Global Health, CSIC) and led the CSIC-funded project CCC (Culture, belief and trust. The power of the implicit in social life and in scientific activity), as well as a 5-years-project on Rationality and Normativity in the Technische Universität Berlin.
Her work has a strong societal and policy component. She has been a member of the Government of Spain’s “Forum against Disinformation Campaigns in the Field of National Security” and collaborates as an expert with the Office of Science and Technology of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (Oficina C), contributing to reports on disinformation in the digital era. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centro de Estudios Orteguianos and of the Governing Board of the GENET Association (Cross-cutting Network of Gender Studies in the Human, Social and Legal Sciences). Since 2024 she is Secretary of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) as well as member and collaborator of the civil-society association El Día Después.
Regarding recognition and evaluation responsibilities, she is a member of the jury of the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2025 and 2026), of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities (2026) and of the Javier Muguerza Award of UNED (2025). She serves on editorial boards and series councils (e.g. Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, “Theoria cum Praxi”, “Clásicos del Pensamiento”, “Filosofía SCLF”) and works regularly as project evaluator for regional and international agencies (Community of Madrid synergistic R&D projects; AVAP since 2022; CONICET 2024).
She has a long and diverse teaching and mentoring trajectory. She has taught 53 university courses in philosophy at TUB (BA and MA), and given invited lectures in Master’s and PhD programmes at UCM, UCLM (Cuenca), USAL and UNED. She participates in doctoral programmes in philosophy and philosophy of science, and has supervised numerous Bachelor’s and Master’s theses as well as several predoctoral fellows (FPU, FPI, regional and foundation grants). She currently supervises or co-supervises eight PhD theses in Spain, in addition to previous supervision at TU Berlin.
Overall, her career combines advanced theoretical work in philosophy of science and culture with sustained engagement in digital-society issues, public communication, policy advice and academic leadership at national and international level.
Ivana Skuhala Karasman
Treasurer
Ivana Skuhala Karasman studied Philosophy and Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb and in 2011, she defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled Prediction in Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy (in the Works of H. Dalmatin, F. Grisogono, G. Raguseus). She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. She is also the head of the Department of the Croatian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and serves as Principal Investigator of the projects New Topics in Croatian Philosophy from 1874 to 1945 and Wundt, Mercier and Modern Croatian Philosophy. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contributions to the Research of Croatian Philosophical Heritage. Over the past five years, her main focus has been Gender Philosophy, specifically the history of Croatian women philosophers.
http://ifzg.hr/ustroj/svi_zaposlenici_instituta_za_filozofiju/skuhala_karasman-bibliografija/
Speaker
Autonous University of Madrid, Spain
Cristina Sánchez
Ruth Hagengruber
Board Member
Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber is a German philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paderborn. Currently she serves as elected President of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie DGPhil.
Hagengruber’s research is dedicated to the rediscovery of women’s alternative contributions to the history of philosophy. Before she founded the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, her main research focussed on the history of economics, with a special interest on circular and universality based economics as an approach to integrative economic ethics. She has published on value theory in Feminist Economics and reflects on technical design from a feminist and inclusive point of view, such as autonomous driving, a different approach to labour, and a profound recognition of creative skills.
Hagengruber is founder and director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and founder of the research area EcoTechGender. She is editor of the German Springer series Frauen in Philosophie und Wissenschaft (since 2014), as co-editor of the international Springer series Women in the History of Philosophy and Science (since 2018). For the Center she conceptionalised the first and digital Encyclopedia of Consice Concepts by Women Philosophers. She founded and co-edits the Journal for the History of Women Philosophers at Brill’s. With De Gruyter Publishing she edits the series Women Philosophers World Heritage Collection.
In 2025 she has been elected President of the German Society for Philosophy. From 2019-2025 she served as Vice-president of the Deutsche Akademikerinnenverband and from 2021 – 2025 as the Secretary of the International Association of Women Philosophers. From 2011-2019 she served in the Advisory Board of Technology in Society for the Technical University Munich and became Life-member of the International Association of Philosophy of Information Science in 2011. On 2020 she became elected member of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. In August 2024 she was appointed member of the FISP Gender Committee.
In 2014 she was awarded the research award ‘Innovationen in der digitalen Hochschullehre’ from Paderborn University; in 2015 she was rewarded the Wiener-Schmidt Award by the Society for Cybernetics and Systems Theory. In 2016 the Stifterverband awarded the Online Teaching project ‘Philosophy goes MOOC’ and in 2018, the Center team was awarded the DARIAH-DE research award for the digital presentation of the Encyclopedia of Consice Concepts by Women Philosophers.
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ruth_e_hagengruber/curriculum-vitae/
Kateryna Kapenko
Board Member
Dr. Kateryna Kapenko is Head of the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine. She is also a fellow and visiting professor at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
She defended her dissertation “The Gender dimension of the ecological communication” in 2006 at Kharkiv V. N. Karazin National University. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree (2007) and has been a Professor since 2008.
She has published more than 200 works, including the monograph Nature and Woman: Ecofeminist Perspectives in Ukraine (2006, in Ukrainian).
She has participated in more than 100 international conferences across Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, the United States, China, Estonia, Hungary, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, and Macedonia.
She initiated and coordinated the International Interdisciplinary Conference “Gender. Ecology. Health.”
Her academic background includes graduating from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a degree in philosophy, and earlier doctoral work on environmental responsibility as a means of resolving the nature–society contradiction.
Her research focuses on ecofeminism, gender studies, and ecological communication, particularly in relation to contemporary global challenges.
Verónica Tozzi Thompson
Board Member
Verónica is Professor of Philosophy of History at the University of Buenos Aires, and Epistemology of Social Sciences at the National University of Tres de Febrero. She is Principal Researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET). She is currently Chair of Philosophy Department at the University of Buenos Aires.
She is PhD on Philosophy by the University of Buenos Aires (1997) and has done PosPhD studies with Richard J. Bernstein at the New School for Social Research (2014) and with William Outhwait at the University of Sussex )1999)
Priyankha Jha
Board Member
Dr Priyanka Jha is an Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. Her teaching and research are situated at the intersection of political theory, philosophy, and the intellectual history of ideas. She is particularly interested in gendered intellectual history, focusing on women thinkers and philosophers from modern India and South Asia. Dr Jha traces the rich and expansive feminist traditions of the region, recovering their historical, political, social, and philosophical dimensions. Gender serves as a central analytical lens throughout her research.
Ma. Theresa T. Payongayong
Board Member
Dr. Ma. Theresa T. Payongayong is a professor at the Department of Philosophy, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches courses such as Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy for Children, and Filipino Philosophy. She has served both the UP System and UP Diliman in a range of leadership roles, including College Secretary, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University Registrar, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs.
In recognition of her commitment to teaching, research, and public service, she has received numerous grants and awards from both the UP System and UP Diliman. These include the One UP Professorial Chair Award in Feminist Philosophy (2019–2021, 2022–2024, 2025–2027), the UPD Centennial Professorial Chair (2021), and the UPD Centennial Faculty Grant (2016, 2018, 2022). She is a lifetime member of the Women’s Studies Association of the Philippines and the Asosasyon ng mga Dalubhasa, may Hilig, at Interes sa Kasaysayan (ADHIKA), and is also affiliated with the Asian Association of Women’s Studies and Aliguyon-UP Folklorists, Inc. At present, she serves as president of the Pambansang Samahan sa Pilosopiyang Pilipino, a board member of the International Association of Women Philosophers, and convenor of the ASEAN University Network on Gender Justice and Inclusion.
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