Daniela Patrizia Taormina is Professor of History of Philosophy of Late Antiquity at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.

Her research activity deals primarily with the philosophy of Late Antiquity, from Middle-Platonism to the Platonic philosophers of the 4th century A.D. and focused in particular on the domains of psychology and post-Plotinian ontology. In relation to psychology, she deepened the problems of the definition of the soul and of its cognitive functions. In relation to Ontology, she focused on the problem of the Neoplatonic overcoming of classical Ontology (Platonic and Aristotelian).

She has been Visiting Professor at the University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne; at the Institut für Altertumswissenschaften – Fiedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; at l’École Pratique des Hautes Études – Paris. She has also been Visiting Scholar at the University of Bonn and Research Associate at the Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines du Canada.