Raphaël Van Daele graduated in philosophy and Chinese studies from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in 2015. In 2020, he obtained a PhD in comparative philosophy from the ULB and from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS in Paris with a dissertation entitled "Fathoming the Origin and Expression the Many in Neoplatonism and Dark Learning (Xuanxue 玄學): A Comparative Approach of the Question of the First Principles in Damascius and Guo Xiang 郭象." Focusing on metaphysics and on philosophy in Late Greek Antiquity and in Early Medieval China, Raphaël Van Daele’s research question the philosophical value of classical Chinese thought in a comparative perspective. Raphaël Van Daele's dissertation has been awarded with the EHESS Thesis Award 2020-2021. In 2021-2022, Raphaël Van Daele has been an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford (the Queen’s College and China Centre) and a postdoc research fellow at the Wiener-Anspach Foundation. His research focuses on the concept of transformation in 3rd-4th century Chinese philosophy. Focusing on the reception and exegesis of the Book of Changes (Yijing 易經) by Wang Bi 王弼 (226-249), this research is part of a broader project supported by the F.R.S-FNRS since July 2022. As a post-doc research fellow at the ULB, Raphaël Van Daele aims at questioning the applicability of the Western philosophical categories of “metaphysics” and “ontology” to Chinese thought, especially the Dark Learning movement.