Core team
Michele Lavazza | Coordinator
Michele Lavazza is a translator, an expert on digital humanities and learning technologies, and an advocate of free knowledge online. He holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from the University of Milan; his thesis on Wittgenstein and transcendental philosophy was partly written in Milan and partly at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He founded the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project in 2020.
Jasmin Trächtler | Editor
Born 1991, studied in Kassel. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bergen and the University of Kassel in 2021, with the thesis Wittgensteins Grammatik des Fremdseelischen (Berlin: Metzler, 2021). She has been a Research Fellow at the Wittgenstein Archives Bergen at the University of Bergen (2018-2021) and the Institute for Philosophy at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris (2020). Her main research interests lie in Wittgenstein, philosophy of language, aesthetics and philosophy of science. She is now an assistant professor at the TU Dortmund.
Filippo Villaggi | Editor
Filippo Villaggi, born 1998, is currently attending a double Master’s Degree programme in Philosophy at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan) and ICT (Toulouse). He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree with a thesis entitled “Live happily!”. The idea of happiness in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ethics. His current research interests are Wittgenstein’s and Heidegger’s later philosophy, recent French philosophical thought and contemporary perspectives on the end of philosophy.
David Chandler | Editor
David Chandler is a final year student at King’s College London. Outside of Wittgenstein, his interests include Kant, metaphilosophy, and the philosophy of language.
Alexandra Zografou | Outreach
A Greek-born Madrid-based digital project manager, specializing in online product design and development. She is also the Manager of the MVDM Mentor Program at IE and a member of the UWC International Council. She has consulted on and managed a variety of projects in the field of executive education, lifelong learning, and learning innovation, having worked with world-renowned universities and European NGOs. Currently, she is working on a number of youth training and arts & humanities initiatives, while exploring her research interests in a diverse spectrum of areas, such as mentoring, digital humanities, and visual grammar in design.
Translators
Ioanna Bartsidi
Ioanna Bartsidi was born in Thessaloniki in 1993. She studied philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris and is currently preparing a Ph.D. on historicity and presentism in Hegel and post-Hegelianism. She holds an M.A. from the University of Paris 1 and the agrégation de philosophie and is working as a teaching and research assistant at the Université Paris-Nanterre. She has translated various texts into English, French and Greek.
Luca Bernardi
Luca Bernardi (1991) grew up in Bolzano. He has translated more than twenty novels and nonfiction books from English for major Italian publishers. In 2016 he published his first novel Medusa.
Alberto Buscató Vázquez
After studying Biotechnology at the university, motivated, as it were, by the search for knowledge, Alberto Buscató Vázquez decided to change his path to philosophy. For that purpose, he did an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in Philosophy, both in Germany. He currently focuses on writing about culture, history, and philosophy, while planning to live with less and contribute the most.