Dr. Alex Thinius is a scholar of philosophy and socio-cultural studies. Alex is interested in what categories are, how they relate to structures and practices, and how they change.

Alex’s most recent work analyzes how researchers in biomedicine renegotiate their understandings of sex and gender (“The Reconceptualization of Sexual Difference”). This research is, in part, grounded in the GenderSci Lab at Harvard University, of which Alex has been a member since 2022.

A second research theme focuses on the metaphysics of socio-cultural categories as dynamic processes (“Dynamic Categories”), following up on Alex’s PhD research on what gender and genre categories are, completed at the Universiteit van Amsterdam in 2021 (Genders as Genres).

As an educator, Alex is interested in pro-democratic pedagogies. Alex has taught and coordinated courses at Universiteit van Amsterdam, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, RU Bochum, and Universität Münster, mostly in Cultural Theory, Cultural Analysis, Philosophy of Science, and Social Philosophy.