Cornelia Stefan has studied Philosophy at the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt. After doing her master she received a doctoral fellowship in Medical Humanities at the University of Insubria Varese/Como (IT) which she completed with a PhD. Since 2016 she is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal "Europea"and author of several peer-reviewed articles. From 2019 to 2021 she was a Postdoc at the University Salzburg and currently she is Senior Scientist at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt.