Dylan Trigg is an IRC post-doctoral research fellow at UCD, School of Philosophy. He is also a visiting researcher at Les Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure, working in conjunction with Dorothée Legrand. He was previously a post-doctoral researcher at The Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée, Paris.

For several years, he taught philosophy at the University of Sussex. He earned his PhD at the same university, submitting a thesis on the materiality of memory. His thesis was supervised by Tanja Staehler and Paul Davies, and examined by Edward S. Casey (Stony Brook) and Celine Surpenant (University of Sussex). He has been a visiting scholar at Duquesne University, USA, a guest lecturer at the University of Montana, USA, and an invited speaker to several conferences.

His research includes: phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Bachelard, Husserl, and Heidegger); the phenomenology of place (especially spatial phobias, memory and materiality, and the aesthetics of space); psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan); and various aspects of bodily existence (intersubjectivity, identity, and affectivity).

In addition to several articles, Trigg is the author of:

The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012)

The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason (New York: Peter Lang, 2006)

He is currently working on a monograph looking at the phenomenology of agoraphobia.