Born and raised in Germany, Christian Wenzel pursued studies of mathematics, physics, philosophy, and fine arts at the universities of Würzburg, Bonn, and Wuppertal in Germany and, in the United States, at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1990 he received his PhD in mathematics, with a dissertation in algebraic geometry, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). From 1990 to 1991, he was Visiting Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, and in Madras, India. While being an Assistant Professor in mathematics at the University of Wupperta…
Born and raised in Germany, Christian Wenzel pursued studies of mathematics, physics, philosophy, and fine arts at the universities of Würzburg, Bonn, and Wuppertal in Germany and, in the United States, at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1990 he received his PhD in mathematics, with a dissertation in algebraic geometry, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA). From 1990 to 1991, he was Visiting Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, and in Madras, India. While being an Assistant Professor in mathematics at the University of Wuppertal from 1991 to 1998, he at the same time pursued his studies in philosophy. During this time, Wenzel also spent a period as a Visiting Professor at L'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, in 1995. In 1999 he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wuppertal with a dissertation on Kant. His Advisor was Prof. Manfred Baum. For the following two years he was an Alexander von Humboldt scholar, first at Harvard University and Boston University from 1999 to 2000, and then at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2000 to 2001. In the Fall of 2001, Dr. Dr. Wenzel joined National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, as Associate Professor. Each summer of 2002 to 2009, he gave a graduate course at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. In 2004 he was awarded the Outstanding Research Award by the National Science Council of Taiwan, and in 2005 he was promoted to Full Professor. The academic year of 2005/6 he spent at Stanford, and since February 2009 he is Professor at National Taiwan University, Department of Philosophy, Taipei, Taiwan. In 2009 he received Taiwan's Ministry of Education Research Award, and since then he is Distinguished Professor at National Taiwan University. In 2012 he spent two terms in Oxford, 2013 another term there, and in 2015 one semester at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. In each 2017 and 2018 he again spent one term in Oxford.
Christian Wenzel's fields of research are Kant, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, phenomenology, Chinese philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics. He plays the piano and enjoys reading literature and riding motorcycle. He is familiar with Latin and Ancient Greek and fluent in German, English, French, and Chinese.
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