Stefano Micali is Professor at the KU Leuven and the head of the Centre of the Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenology and Continental Philosophy. He has published over 50 articles in different languages (English, German, Italian, French, and Dutch) in various areas of research ranging from psychopathology to religion, from political philosophy to aesthetics. He is the author of four monographic books: Überschüsse der Erfahrung (2008), Esperienze temporali (2008), Tra l'altro e se stessi (2020) and Phenomenology of Anxiety (2022). He has co-edited several books on the relation between philosophy and psychopathology such as Bilderfahrung und Psychopathologie (Fink Verlag, 2014) and Das überforderte Subjekt (Suhrkamp, 2018).

Offers a thorough research on anxiety in its various facets and dimensions according to the new method of "phenomenological polyphony"

Explores new perspectives on the complex relation between anxiety, fear, and trauma with reference to different disciplines, such as art history, psychopathology, and cultural anthropology

Develops new categories for the understanding of anxiety, such as the quasi-intentional imaginative anticipation