Born in 1974
AcademiaNet: http://www.academia-net.org/profil/prof-dr-claudia-welz/1196672 ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-6682-9722 Aarhus University: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/clw@cas.au.dk
Education
1994-1996 Education and employment as assistant nurse - at Diakonissenkrankenhaus Stuttgart - internship at the Stuttgart hospice and - at residential aged care facility in Versailles/Paris - voluntary social work in Lancashire, England 1996-2003 Studies in Theology and Philosophy - Sprachenkolleg der Evangelischen Landeskirche Württemberg in Stuttgart - Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen - Dormition Abbey and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2003 MA in Theology, University of Tübingen 2003-2006 PhD-student at the Institute for Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion, University of Zürich. Research stays at - Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen - Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen - Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Theology, University of Hamburg June 2006 PhD dissertation “God’s (Non)Phenomenality and the Problem of Theodicy” Febr. 2007 PhD in Systematic Theology (summa cum laude), University of Zürich Sept. 2009 Habilitation thesis “Vertrauen und Versuchung”, University of Zürich March 2010 Venia legendi in Systematic Theology Privatdozentin at the Faculty of Theology, University of Zürich
Academic employment
2000-2001 Research assistant/Tutor (Church History), University of Heidelberg 2001-2002 Research assistant (New Testament), University of Tübingen Spring 2004 Research assistant (Philosophy of Religion), University of Zürich 2006-2007 Assistant research professor at the Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen 2007-2010 Postdoctoral research fellow Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen 2010 Associate professor Department of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen 2010-2018 Professor with special responsibilities in Ethics and Philosophy of Religion, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen 2014-2019 Founding director of CJMC Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen (see also https://joediskinfo.dk/om-joedisk-informationscenter/cjmc-center-the-study-of-jewish-thought-in-modern-culture) Summer 2020 Visiting professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) Institut für evangelische Theologie, University of Duisburg-Essen Sept. 2020- Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University
Individual grants and fellowships
1997-2003 9-semester scholarship at Evangelisches Stift in Tübingen 1999-2000 Grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for an academic year in Jerusalem 2004-2006 2-year PhD stipend from Ev. Studienwerk e.V. Villigst, Germany 2005 2-month short-term research grant from the Minerva Foundation for a research stay at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2007-2009 2-year postdoctoral research grant from The Danish National Research Foundation: Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS), University of Copenhagen 2009-2010 14-month postdoctoral research grant from the Velux Foundation, Denmark, as part of the collective research project “Trust, Conflict, Recognition” Nov. 2009 Research stay at San Cataldo, Italy, financed by University of Copenhagen 2010-2013 3-year postdoctoral research grant from the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark (only 11 months’ funding out of 36 months’ approved funding was utilized due to secured salary) 2017-2018 Semper Ardens Fellowship within the Humanities and Social Sciences from the Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark April 2019 Visiting researcher at the Department of Education and the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and History, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway 2019-2020 10-month fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Bad Homburg & Goethe University Frankfurt 2020-2021 5-month fellowship at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Hamburg University (due to the pandemic, I could only spend a couple of weeks in Hamburg)
Awards and distinctions
2009 The John Templeton Award for Theological Promise from the University of Heidelberg through FIIT: Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Theologie / Research Institute for International and Interdisciplinary Theology 2013 Elite Research Award from the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education Nov. 2018 Visiting researcher at the Philosophy Department, University of Melbourne, Australia Jan. 2019 Visiting researcher at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Summer 2019 Visiting researcher at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Since 7/2021 Adjunct professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland
Participation in international and interdisciplinary research endeavors
2006-2012 Research fellow at the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS), University of Copenhagen (main disciplines involved: various traditions within philosophy, theology, ethics, psychology and psychiatry) 2008-2011 Core member of the project “Trust, Conflict, Recognition” at CFS, University of Copenhagen (main disciplines involved: philosophy of religion, philosophy of emotion, ethics, theology, sociology) 2009-2013 Contributing to the project “Phenomenology of Religious Life” at Oxford University and University of Copenhagen (main disciplines involved: philosophy of religion, ethics, Christian theology, Hindu studies) 2009-2013 Planning, implementing and acting as steering group member of the project “In-visibilis: Visibility and Transcendence in Religion, Arts, and Ethics” (University of Copenhagen and Institute for Iconicity, University of Rostock; main disciplines involved: church history, systematic theology, philosophy of religion, ethics, art history and visual studies) 2011-2012 Contributing to the development of a new MA program in Counselling/Pastoral Care at the University of Copenhagen (main disciplines involved: practical theology, systematic theology, psychology, psychiatry, sociology) 2014-2016 Affiliated researcher of the project “Self-Understanding and Self-Alienation: Existential Hermeneutics and Psychopathology” (University of Copenhagen and Psychiatric Center Hvidovre; main disciplines involved: philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, trauma studies) 2014-2019 Founding Director of CJMC: Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture, University of Copenhagen (main disciplines involved: theology, philosophy, literary studies, psychology, psychiatry, history, media theory, cultural studies) 2019-2020 Contributing to the LOEWE SCHWERPUNKT "Religiöse Positionierung: Modalitäten und Konstellationen in jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Kontexten" (Goethe Universität Frankfurt; main disciplines involved: Jewish studies, Christian theology, Islamic studies, philosophy) 2021-2024 PI of collective research project: “Epistemological Aspects of ‘Dialogue’: Exploring the Potential of the Second-Person Perspective” (Starting Grant by the Aarhus University Research Foundation) 2021- Co-founder and co-director of new Research Unit for Kierkegaard Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University
Summer 2020