Dr. Zaharia-Sebastian Mateiescu

Curriculum Vitae


Since July 2025	Postdoc Researcher in SNF project “IMAGO”, Institute for Old Catholic Theology, University of Bern
2022-2025	Project Coordinator EU Funds – TU Delft University, Netherlands
2020-2022	Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, Leiden University, Netherlands
2019-2020	Research postdoc fellow, Institute for Ecumenical Research, University of Lucian Blaga, Sibiu, Romania
2016-2017	Associate University Lecturer, Department of Hungarology, Jewish Studies and Rromani, University of Bucharest, Romania
2015-2016	Swiss National Research Fund Researcher (SNRF), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2014-2015	Postdoc researcher (Swiss Scientific Exchange Programme NMS-CH-CRUS), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2012-2014	Postdoc researcher, Centre for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
2011-2012	New Europe College Research Fellow, New Europe College Institute of Advanced Studies, Romania
2008-2012	MA in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania
2003-2007	BA in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Romania

Key Research Interests

• Early Christian Thinking

• Late Antiquity and Patristics

• Philosophy and Christianity

• Maximus the Confessor

Selected Publications

Edited works

Maximus the Confessor and Origenism: Criticism and Development in Post-Chalcedonian Theology – co-edited with V. Cvetkovic. Aschendorff Verlag, Series Adamantiana, forthcoming 2025.
Lost for Words: Chalcedonian Christology Revisited - Review of Ecumenical Studies vol. 11, 3/2019, Institute for Ecumenical Research, Sibiu. Journal issue jointly edited with Dr. Florin George Calian.

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

2024: Sin as a Tropos: The Ontology of Human Action in Maximus the Confessor. Journal of Early Christian Studies 32, no. 4 (2024): 553-574. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/earl.2024.a947487.
2023: 'In contemplation only!' Chalcedonians and anti-Chalcedonians on the reality of the natures of Christ, Modern Theology 39 (3) 2023: 490-507. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IJJZTM3MJ7EE7VV4YETS?target=10.1111/moth.12871
2022: Arguing with the properties of Christ: the case of difference as in natural quality and its critical reception by Maximus the Confessor, in V. Cvetkovic & A. Léonas (eds.), Studies in Maximus the Confessor’s Opuscula Theologica et Polemica. Papers Collected on the Occasion of the Belgrade Colloquium on Saint Maximus, 3–4 February 2020. Corpus Christianorum Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 89. Brepols-Turnhout. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.130168
2020: John Philoponus and the interpretation of the differentia in the aftermath of Chalcedon, in M. Knežević (ed.), Aristotle in Byzantium. Sebastian Press, Center for Hellenic Studies in Podgorica, pp. 83-123. https://sebastianpress.org/aristotle-in-byzantium/
2019: The Doctrine of Immanent Realism in Maximus the Confessor, in E. Emilsson, F. Janby, P. Pavlos and T. Tollefsen (eds.), Platonism and Christian Thought. Routledge Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity, gen. eds. M. Edwards and L. Ayres, Routledge, Taylor&Francis, pp. 201-220. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429440465-12/doctrine-immanent-realism-maximus-confessor-sebastian-mateiescu

Institut für Christkatholische Theologie

Dr. Zaharia-Sebastian Mateiescu

Curriculum Vitae

Key Research Interests

Selected Publications

Edited works

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters