I am Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies in the Faculty of Theology, University of South Bohemia (Budweis). My research focuses especially on metaphysics and epistemology in Early Modern Scholastic philosophy. I have published three monographic titles on Francisco Suárez’s philosophy, dealing with the topics of the concepts of being and transcendental unity, universals, and perception. At the Human Ability Centre I will be working on Suárez’s theory of angelic cognition, with the goal of identifying the differences (and the similarities, too) between human and angelic cognitive capacities, thus highlighting the limits of human (embodied) cognition. My plan is to investigate the following questions: How does the nature of mental representation (intelligible species), especially those related to material objects, differ in angelic and human knowledge, and how does angelic cognition of material objects proceed? How does the angelic and human “attentional reservoir” differ as regards the issue of the simultaneous cognition of multiple objects? What are the differences between human and angelic self-knowledge? In a long-term perspective, I am interested in historiographical questions about how late Scholastic angelology helped to establish early modern metaphysics and the epistemology of authors such as Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz.