Malak Mostafa is a graduate student in Philosophy and English Studies and a research assistant at the Husserl-Archiv, University of Cologne. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Literature, and Linguistics from RWTH Aachen University and is currently pursuing a two-subject Master’s degree in Philosophy and English Studies at the University of Cologne.

At the Husserl-Archiv, she works on the DFG-funded project “Situated Expressivity in Dementia: From Hexis to Deixis”, where she supports research at the intersection of phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and psychology. Her responsibilities include literature research, editorial work, data preparation, and project organization. She is also on the team of organizers for the Cologne Lectures in New Medical Humanities.

Her academic interests lie primarily in epistemology, ethics, and ontology, as well as in language acquisition, multilingualism, and generative grammar. More broadly, she is interested in interdisciplinary approaches that connect philosophical analysis with empirical research in the cognitive and social sciences.