After further studies under the direction of Bernhard Waldenfels and Klaus Held in Germany, he has obtained a PhD at the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia). Dr. Komel is mainly dedicated to do research about philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, philosophy of culture, philosophy of art, translation and philosophical terminology, identity and European cultural differences and interculturality.

Among his numerous publications these are some of the recent ones:

• “O materinjem jeziku” (In: Tvrđa-časopis za teoriju, kulturu i vizualne umjetnosti, Vol. 1-2, N° 14, 2021, pp. 212-225)
• “Gedächtnis und Heideggers Frage » Was heißt Denken?” (In: Philosophоs Philotheos – Philoponоs, vol.65, N°9-12, 2021, pp. 581-592)
• “On Mother Tongue” (In: Phainomena, Vol. 30, N° 118, 2021, pp. 233-262)
• Totalitarium (Ljubljana, Inštitut Nove Revije, 2020)
• “El final del humanismo como lugar del pensar de Pirjevec” (En: Cuestiones de Filosofía, Vol. 6, N° 26, 2020, pp. 53-74)
• “Die Geschichtlichkeit Europas und die Schatten des Nihilismus” (In: Teoria. Rivista di filosofia, Vol. 40, N° 1, 2020, pp. 31-39)
• “Contemporality of the context of understanding as the basis of interdisciplinary humanities” (In: Annales-Anali za Istrske in Mediteranske Studije – Serie Historia et Sociologia, Vol. 29, N° 4, 2019, pp. 531-548)
• Freiheit und gerechtigkeit als herausforderung der humanwissenschaften: Freedom and justice as a challenge of the humanities (Ljubljana, Peter Lang AG, 2019)
• “Between explanations and clarifying” (In: Phainomena, Vol. 28, N° 108, 2019, pp. 473-489)
• “The great october and the merry december: On some issues of the october revolution and revolution in general” (In: Studia Historica Slovenica, Vol. 18, N° 3, 2018, pp. 737-754)
• “The Influence of Heidegger’s Thought on the Development of Philosophy in Ex-Yugoslav Countries” (In: Human Studies, Vol. 41, N° 4, 2018, pp. 643-660)
• The Influence of Heidegger’s Thought on the Development of Philosophy in Ex-Yugoslav Countries” (En: Human Studies, 2017, pp. 1-18)
• Obeležja smisla (Ljubljana, Nova revija, 2016)
• “Über die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der interkulturellen Philosophie” (In: Synthesis philosophica, vol. 29, N°. 2, 2015, pp. 361-371)
• “Crisis as the Discrimen of Philosophy” (In: Phainomena, vol. 24, N°. 92/93, 2015, pp. 19–27)
• “Jože Pučnik: personal freedom, culture and politics; Jože Pučnik: Osebna svoba, kultura in politika” (In: Traditiones, vol. 43, N°. 1, 2014, pp.125-135)
• “Govorica kot prostor filozofije, filozofija kot kraj govorice” (In: Slavistična revija, vol. 62, N°. 3, 2014, pp.423 434)
• “Gadamer and Kierkegaard: on contemporaneity” (In: Filozofia, vol. 69, N°. 5, 2014, pp. 434-442)
• Kontemplationen: Entwürfe zur phänomenologischen Hermeneutik: Libri Nigri (Nordhausen, Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2014),
• “Multiculturalism and Interculturality” (In: Filozofia, vol. 67, N°. 8, 2012, pp. 677-688)
• Den Nihilismus verwinden: Ein slowenisches Postscript zum 20. Jahrhundert (Nordhausen, Verlag Traugott Bautz, 2012)
• Sodobnosti (Ljubljana, Nova Revija, 2011)
• Bivanja (Dob, Miš, 2011)
• Potikanja (Ljubljana, Apokalipsa, 2010)
• Intermundus: Hermeneutisch-Phänomenologische Entwürfe (Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann, 2009)
• “Zur Erfahrung der Kunst: ein Versuch” (In: Phainomena, vol. 17, N°. 66/67, 2008, pp. 9-22)
• “Marginalije” (In: Phainomena, vol. 17, N°. 64/65, 2008, pp. 253-255)
• “Hermeneutics and the Historical Question of Philosophy” (In: The Proceedings of the Twenty First World Congress of Philosophy, vol. 12, N°. 1, 2007, pp. 51-55)
• “Philosophy in interculturality” (In: Phainomena, vol. 15, N°. 59, 2006, pp. 93-105)
• “O hermenevtičnem odnosu” (In: Phainomena, vol. 15, N°. 55/56, 2006, pp. 27-41)

He received the Zois Award by the Republic of Slovenia for his outstanding scientific achievements in 2003. He is also an initiator (1990) and president (1996) of the Phenomenological Society of Ljubljana and member of numerous philosophical societies, editorial councils and scientific journals of philosophy and culture such as: Phainomena, Nova Revija, Ampak, Prolegomena, Orbis Phaenomenologicus, Topos, Teoria, Analecta Hermeneutica, Magazzino di filosofía y Divinatio. He is a founding member of the Central and Eastern Europe Conference on Phenomenology and the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations. He is professor at the Univerza v Ljubljani (Slovenia) in the Faculty of Letters and also the head of the Department of Philosophy since 2002. Since 2005 he directs research activities at the Inštitut Nove Revije, Zavod za Humanistiko.