Sarah de Mendonça Virgi is Assistant Professor of European and Islamic Philosophy at Utrecht University. Before coming to Utrecht, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the LMU in Munich, where she worked on two research projects, led by Prof. Peter Adamson: "The Heirs of Avicenna", exploring the lasting impact of Avicenna's philosophy in the Islamic world; and “Animals in Philosophy of the Islamic World”.

Her research delves into various topics in medieval Arabic thought, particularly in natural philosophy, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and theology. In her PhD thesis, she explored the concepts of spirit and soul through the works of two influential Islamic philosophers in the medieval period, al-Ghazali and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. She is also interested in ancient and medieval conceptions of nature, biology, animal and human intelligence, and how these ideas intersect with moral philosophy, ethics, and gender.

Committed to making philosophy accessible beyond academia, she is the vice editor and regular contributor to IPM Monthly: Medieval Philosophy Today (www.ipmtoday.com), an online magazine where she interviews scholars and explores how their work connects philosophy to the wider community.