Professor Silvia Jonas, born in 1983, studied Political Science, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at the University of Munich and holds a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University (2010) and a PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin (2012).She held a Polonsky Fellowship at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (2012-2017) as well as a Minerva Fellowship (2017-2019) and a Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship (2019-2022) at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich before taking up her current position as professor of philosophy at the University of Bamberg.
Her main research interests are in metaphysics and epistemology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. Central questions are how mathematics shapes the philosophical conceptualization of realitywhether reality exceeds the physical realm, and if there can be knowledge beyond the limits of language.