A former student of the École normale supérieure (Paris), Raphaël Authier joined RENEW18 in September 2024. Before that, he held teaching and research positions at Sorbonne Université (2016-2022) and at the university of Strasbourg (2022-2024).

As part of the RENEW18 project, his research focuses on Schelling’s relationship with Newton, from an epistemological as well as from a metaphysical perspective. Another strand of his research deals with the transformation of the concept of history in modern and contemporary European philosophy.

He has published a monograph (Figures de l’histoire, formes du temps. Hegel, Schelling et l’élaboration d’un concept d’histoire, Paris, Vrin, 2023), several articles in peer-reviewed journals and been co-editor of several volumes.