Biographical Details

Albert Galvany read Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. After obtaining his M.A. on Sinology at the University Paris 7, he was a doctoral researcher at the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of this very same university from 1999 to 2004. He worked as an assistant professor at the Dept. of Humanities of the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) from 2005 to 2007 just before receiving his Ph.D. degree at the University of Granada. From 2008 to 2010 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne, Paris) and during 2010, a visiting fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (Friedrich-Alexander Universität), in Erlangen (Germany).

He has written a number of scientific papers in English on early Chinese intellectual history and classical Chinese philosophy for peer-reviewed journals such as Études Chinoises, Asiatische Studien, Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Monumenta Serica, Philosophy East and West, Asia Major.