Alessandro Topa obtained both his MA (Lógos and Praxis. The Structure of Practical Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues, 1998) and PhD (Since Thought Needs a Body. The Problem of a Metaphysical Deduction of the Categories in Kant and Peirce, 2006) from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, where he studied philosophy, communication research and comparative literature. After completing his studies, Topa worked for two years as a free-lance journalist for the renowned Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the German Federal Agency of Civic Education. His main focus in these years was Iranian History, Culture and Politics. Topa joined the Department of Philosophy at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in September 2009, acting as the graduate program director since 2015. In fall 2017 he became a fellow of the department of philosophy of the Otto-Friedrich-University in Bamberg, Germany. He is a member of the Kant-Society, the German Society for Philosophy and the German Society for Semiotics.