Lars Jorgen Kristiansen Moen

Lars Moen's research focuses on political philosophy and the philosophy of social science, with an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of philosophy, political science, and economics. He developed this PPE perspective during several highly productive years at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra.

Before moving to Canberra for his PhD, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he first developed his interest in these disciplines. He was fortunate to learn from outstanding scholars, especially Martin Wilkinson, whose teaching inspired him to pursue graduate study.

He then moved to Oxford to complete the MSc in Political Theory. Although the year was demanding, it significantly deepened his understanding of political philosophy. He owes much of the progress he made there to his supervisor, Zofia Stemplowska, whose insightful feedback and encouragement gave him confidence in his ideas.

After Oxford, he joined the ANU, one of the world's leading centres for philosophy and the social sciences. There he wrote his doctoral dissertation on two conceptions of political freedom, focusing on freedom as non-domination as the core value of republican political theory and its challenge to contemporary liberal theories. The ANU was an ideal place to pursue this research. He had the opportunity to work with Philip Pettit, the leading contemporary advocate of republican freedom, and Keith Dowding, a prominent critic of the republican conception of freedom. His dissertation was approved without corrections and received the Australian Political Studies Association's award for the best PhD dissertation in political science submitted in Australia in 2020.

From November 2021 to June 2026, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna. During the final three years of this appointment, his research was supported by a generous grant from the Austrian Science Fund.

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