Romy Eskens is Assistant Professor in the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University. Her work lies at the intersection of normative ethics, moral psychology, and social and political philosophy, with a focus on the ethics of mind, personal relationships, moral address, and moral equality and partiality. Before joining the Ethics Institute in January 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University, where she also received her PhD in June 2022. Prior to that, she obtained a BPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Philosophy and BA in History from Utrecht University. 

From January 2026 until 2028, she will be working on a research project entitled “The Guilty Mind”, funded by the NWO Veni Talent Programme. The project explores whether individuals might morally owe it to each other not only to act rightly, but also to believe, think, or feel “rightly”.