Júlia Vernet Gaudes is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Barcelona under the direction of Lorena Fuster Peiró and the tutorship of Antonio Castilla. Her research focuses on the Kantian imagination and her reception in 20th-century feminine philosophical thought, with special attention to this faculty’s relationship with the body and intersubjectivity.

She is graduated in Philosophy (UB, 2019) and has a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Thought and Classical Tradition (UB, 2020). Vernet has focused her research on the work of Kant and Hannah Arendt, especially in relation to the philosophy of mind, aesthetics and problems around imagination and freedom. She has also worked on authors such as Nietzsche and Husserl, and has conducted seminars of the institutional activity “A Reading of Great Works of the European Tradition”. She received the University Department Collaboration Fellowship (2019-2020) and currently enjoys the PREDOCS-UB doctoral fellowship (2021). She has done several stays in Germany to learn the language and participated in several European congresses in the field of Kantian aesthetics and studies.

She has experience in the world of dance as an amateur contemporary dancer, focusing on learning Flying Low and improvisation techniques. She works informally in the field of conceptualization and management with the dance company LaCerda and Col·lectiu Collage, established in Barcelona. She often collaborates with the magazines Núvol and Recomana as a reviewer of performing arts and a writer on cultural events about thought and philosophy.