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 a postdoctoral fellow in Russell Friedman's ERC Advanced Grant The Late Scholastic Transformation of Hylomorphism. Philosophical Discussions of Form and Matter in Context, 1400-1600. My individual research here focuses on 16th-century hylomorphism and theories of causation as well as its impact on early modern philosophy.  Specifically, I am working on authors such as Bento Perera, Francisco Toledo, Pedro da Fonseca, Francisco Suárez and the Conimbricenses

From 2024 to March 2026, I was Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. My research project focused 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.