Dr Allan Køster

Allan Køster is trained as a philosopher with a PhD in psychology. He is a Senior Researcher at the Danish National Center for Grief. His research focuses broadly on the existential dimensions of human suffering. He has written extensively on grief and bereavement from an existential and phenomenological perspective, seeking to shed light on the tacit and unarticulated aspects of grief experiences. Recently, he served as the co-editor of “Cultural, Existential, and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience” (Routledge, 2021), and he is currently working on a book titled “The World of Grief: Death, Loss, and Consolation”.