Since he received his doctorate in 1994, Sergius Kodera has been teaching Early Modern and Renaissance Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He obtained his habilitation in 2004 and undertook fellowships in London (Warburg Institute), Vienna (IFK), and New York (Columbia). Kodera has published on and/or is a translator of Renaissance authors such as Marsilio Ficino, Machiavelli, Leone Ebreo, Girolamo Cardano, Giovan Battista della Porta, Giordano Bruno, and Francis Bacon. Currently he is working on a book-length study on Della Porta in English. His main fields of interest are the history of the body and sexuality, magic and media, and urban space in interdisciplinary perspectives.

Research Projects at EXC 2020:

Braggart Soldiers, Mnemonic Images, Physiognomics and Astrology in Giovan Battista della Porta (1535–1615) (December 2023)

Inscribed into the Body. Giovan Battista della Porta's Physiognomonics as Art of Memory (October–December 2022)

Between Text, Image and Game: Renaissance Appropriations of the Arts of Memory: The Case of Prometheus (October–December 2021)

Giordano Bruno and Matteo Ricci: 16th Century Arts of Memory between Paris and Beijing (October–December 2019)