Prof. Dr. Imke von Maur is a professor for philosophy at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and currently the president of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE). She completed her PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück with a socio-critical approach to the epistemic relevance of emotions. Before, she studied Cognitive and Media Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen (B. Sc.) and Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück (M. Sc.), with Psychology, Neuroscience and Philosophy as major subjects. Her work focuses on the philosophy of emotion and affect theory, (critical) phenomenology and (critical) social philosophy, as well as practice theory and epistemology. Thematically, Imke von Maur is primarily concerned with the climate crisis and the role of education for a just, sustainable and democratic society as well as the fundamental interplay of practice, narrative and affectivity in the (shared) production and negation of realities.

Dr. Gen Eickers works at the intersection of philosophy of mind and emotion, philosophy of technology, social philosophy, and trans philosophy. They were trained in interdisciplinary research at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and City University of New York during their PhD, and their philosophical work continues to incorporate social psychology, gender studies, and sociology. Currently, they work at Osnabrück University.
Eickers’ research investigates how social structures and social identity shape mind, emotion, and interaction. They have re-opened the research field on scripts in social cognition and interaction and developed the first integrative account of scripts in their monograph (Routledge, 2025), as well as in papers focusing on scripts in emotion perception, showing how social structures shape cognition and interaction.
Their work also examines the connections between social norms, emotions, injustice, and transness, highlighting the importance of trans perspectives for philosophy of mind and emotion. Together with Sigmond Richli, Eickers is editing a volume on trans philosophy (Metzler Verlag). They explore how these questions intersect with technology, analyzing the reciprocal relationship between social norms, emotion, and online interaction. Across their research on emotion, they study how social factors shape emotional experience and perception, and how emotions are often used in unjust social systems, constituting forms of emotional injustice.
The emphasis of their current work is on how socio-political practices employ affect and emotion to shape gender. They focus primarily on trans affect and masculine affect.