Prof. Dr. Ayaka Loeschke

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• 02/2019-03/2019 – Visiting Scholar, Department of Intercultural Communication (Host: Prof. Dr. Yuko Kawai), Rikkyo University, Tokyo.
• 09/2019 – Junior professor for Japanese studies (with tenure track, main focus on digital transformation and politics), Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
• 9/2018 ‒ 08/2019 – SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellow, Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Sciences, Chair of Empirical Theories of Politics (Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill), University of Munich, Germany (sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation).
• 09/2018 – 09/2019 – SNSF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellow, Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Sciences, Chair of Empirical Theories of Politics (Host: Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill), University of Munich, Germany.
• 05/2017 – 06/2017 – Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Medical Anthropology on Disaster Reconstruction, School of Human Sciences, University of Waseda, Tokyo (Host: Prof. Dr. Takuya Tsujiuchi) (sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich).
• 10/2016 – 04/2017 – Research Fellow, University Research Priority Program (URPP) Asian and Europe, University of Zurich.
• 01/2016 – 09/2016 – SNSF Doc.Mobility Fellow, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (Host: Prof. Dr. Robert Pekkanen).
• 01/2013 – 12/2015 – PhD Candidate, URPP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich (sponsored by the Humer Foundation for Academic Talent).

EDUCATION

• 2013 ‒ 2018 – Dissertation in Japanese studies, University of Zurich.
  • Thesis: “The National Advocacy of Japan’s Civil Society Organizations Against Radiation: Policymaking and Organizational Transformation Over Six Years”
  • Committee: Prof. Dr. David Chiavacci, Prof. Dr. Benedikt Korf, Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott
  • Grade: summa cum laude
• 2010 ‒ 2013 MA in Philosophy, University of Bonn.
  • Main focus: normative ethics, meta ethics, Bernard Williams
• 2008 – 2009 Doctoral program in Philosophy, Sophia University, Tokyo
• 2008 Master in Philosophy, Sophia University, Tokyo.
  • Main focus: Martin Heidegger, Mahayana Buddhism, metaphysics of the Kyoto School.