Dr. Emilia Margoni

Personal Information

Emilia Margoni joined the MCMP as a Humboldt fellow in 2026 after spending two years in Geneva (2024-2026) as an SNF postdoctoral fellow. She holds a PhD in Philosophy (2024), an MA in philosophy (2020), an MS in physics of matter (2017) and a BS in physics (2015).

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Research Interests

Emilia’s main research interests lie at the intersection of theoretical physics and metaphysics, with a particular regard on the ontological status of spacetime within quantum gravity projects and inter/intra theoretic relations across physical frameworks. Her PhD focused on the group field theory approach to quantum gravity as an attempt at unification in physics opening novel and fascinating insights on foundational physics, epistemology, and metaphysics. During her postdoc in Geneva, she explored possible ways to understand causation in quantum gravity, with a specific focus on causal set theory. With her Humboldt fellowship, titled “Critical phenomena and the open systems view. Towards a novel, anti-fundamentalist framework” she aims to unravel the fruitfulness of the open systems view for a class of phenomena in condensed matter physics.

Selected Publications

1. Margoni, E. (2026). Which quantum foundations for the minimalist ontology framework? Philosophical Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-026-02485-2.
2. Le Bihan, B., Margoni, E., Vieser, A. (2025). Possibility in physics. In. H. Zwirn (Ed.), Quantum Physics and Cosmology, ISTE, p 303-322. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394427673.ch14.
3. Barzegar, A., Margoni, E., Oriti, D. (2025). A minimalist account of agency in physics. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2025.06.004.
4. Margoni, E., Oriti, D. (2025). The emergence of spacetime: What role for functionalism? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1086/735277.
5. Margoni, E. (2025). “Processualism ahead of time: Bohm’s understanding of physics”. In Oldofredi, A. (Ed.), Guiding Waves in Quantum mechanics: 100 Years of de Broglie-Bohm Pilot-Wave Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Margoni, E. (2024). Adynamism in Physics: The Block Universe vs Barbour’s Relational Strategy. Journal for General Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-024-09688-3.
7. Buonocore, G., Margoni, E., Pero, F. (2023). Conceiving the Inconceivable: An Assessment of Stanford’s New Induction. Argumenta 9, 1: 27-41. https://doi.org/10.14275/2465-2334/202317.buo.
8. Castellani, E., Margoni, E. (2022). “Renormalization Group Methods: Which Kind of Explanation?”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (95): 158-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.07.009.
9. Margoni, E. (2022). “Can There be a Process Without Time? Processualism Within Timeless Physics”, Foundations of Physics, 52 (48). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-022-00564-y.
10. Croce, M., Margoni, E. (2021), “How does an entity acquire identity? Reassembling Relativistic Physics with Actor-Network Theory”, Foundations of Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-021-09800-6.