Leonardo Uderman is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at NOVA University Lisbon. His research focuses on the different conceptions of “decision” in Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger and their implications for the ways in which the past is appropriated. In 2024, he completed his Master studies in Philosophy at the University of Lisbon, with a dissertation on Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history. His research interests lie within Austro-German philosophy of the first half of the twentieth century and contemporary Jewish philosophy, with particular attention to the problematics of history and temporality.