Philosopher Fabio Merlini is the Director of the Regional Office for Italian Switzerland of the Istituto Universitario Federale per la Formazione Professionale (IUFFP), a visiting professor at the University of Lausanne, and the chairman at the Eranos Foundation since 2010. From 1996 to 2000, he co-directed the research group on History's ontology at the Husserl Archives (Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris).