Jil Muller is Postdoctoral Fellow at Paderborn University and Deputy Head of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn, Germany. Her research is twofold: on the one hand, she is interested in the medical traditions of 16th and 17th century women and men philosophers and scientists and their understanding of the body, mechanism and humourism. She has published articles on Descartes’ physiology and anatomy, on his correspondence with Elisabeth of Bohemia and on Montaigne’s illness. On the other hand, she works on the moral theories of women philosophers and scientists of the early modern period, such as Marie de Gournay, Sophie Germain and Émilie du Châtelet. In her work, she always tries to combine both fields of research. She recently has edited two books Women and their Body (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter 2025) and Automata, Cyborgs and Mutants: Eccentric Bodies from Humanism to Transhumanism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan forthcoming).
