My name is Christian Henkel. I am a philosopher. My research focus is on metaphysics specifically in the history of philosophy but also includes natural philosophy (history of philosophy of physics), scientific method, and political philosophy.

Currently, I am an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. My research project focuses on Emilie Du Châtelet's Theory of Causation and Laws of Nature. Du Châtelet (1706  -1749) was an important and influential woman philosopher. Her main interest is in providing a strong metaphysical foundation for the physics of her time.

From 2023 to 2024,  I was a postdoc fellow at the Université de Montréal with a project on transient causation in 18th-century German philosophy. 

From 2022 to 2023, I was an affiliated member of the Department of History of Philosophy at the University of Groningen.

From 2018 to 2022, I was a PhD student at the University of Groningen with a project on the reception of French occasionalism in early modern German philosophy. I received my PhD in philosophy in April 2022.