Veerle van Wijngaarden is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Her PhD project is called ‘Change What You Want? On the Politics of Sexuality and Sexual Desire’. She teaches courses in social and political philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and is a research assistant in Jana Cattien’s project on the political significance of pain.
She graduated in 2022 from the research master philosophy at the University of Amsterdam (cum laude).