My doctoral research, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mathias Perkams, aims to study Philoponus' use of logic and mereology in his philosophical, polemical and Christological texts. In particular, I am interested in exploring how Philoponus adapted these tools of analysis to elaborate a novel miaphysite Christology against the diophysite Christology of the Chalcedonians. In these texts, Philoponus incorporates many philosophical arguments into the theological debates of his time and also demonstrates new applications of his criticisms of Neoplatonic philosophy.

Although the theology of Philoponus has attracted increasing interest in various scholarly circles, it has not been sufficiently studied in contemporary scholarship. I hope that my doctoral research will shed some light on the role of Philoponus' Christological treatises within the rest of his philosophy and his disruptive criticism against Aristotle and Proclus.