Michele Ombrato is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Bologna, where he teaches an MA course in Philosophy of Emotions. His research interests include analytic philosophy of mind and action, the philosophy and psychology of emotion, conscious attention, mental agency, and temporal ontology.
Having earned a BA in Philosophy at the University of Turin, he pursued his graduate studies at the University of Geneva, where he earned both his MA (thesis: Conscious Attention as Mental Agency, supervisor: Prof. K. Mulligan) and his Ph.D. (thesis: Emotion, Agency and Time, an Ontological Approach, supervisors: Prof. J. Deonna and Prof. M. Soteriou). Throughout his Ph.D. studies he was a member of the interdisciplinary doctoral school of the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. He also spent two years in the UK as a visiting doctoral student, first at Warwick University's Mind and Action Research Centre (director: Prof. N. Eilan) and then at King’s College London. Having obtained his Ph.D. in March 2022, from May 2022 to April 2024 he benefited from a Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation and held research positions at the University of Leeds, Warwick University and the University of Oxford.
