Samuel Oliveira earned his PhD in Philosophy at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has since 2025 been an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Science of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. He was a visiting researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is member of the Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos of the University of Coimbra. His main research areas are Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Anthropological Philosophy and Ethics. He is the author of publications about Plato and Patristics, in particular, Saint Augustine.