Andris Hiršs received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2020 from the University of Latvia, defending the doctoral thesis “Jēkabs Osis and the Tartu School of Personalism.”

Since 2024, he has been a Leading Researcher at the Institute of Arts and Cultural Studies, Latvian Academy of Culture. His articles have been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Studies in East European Thought, Problemos, Religious-Philosophical Articles, and Trames.

His doctoral dissertation, published as the monograph Person and Personalism: Enduring the Collapse of Idealism (University of Latvia Press, 2022), was awarded by the Latvian Academy of Sciences as one of the best achievements in the annual Science Achievements’ Competition.

Hiršs’s research focuses on the history of ideas, particularly the historiography of Latvian philosophy and personalism. He currently serves as an Associate Professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture, where he teaches courses on critical thinking, the genealogy of ideas, and the history of philosophy. He is also a visiting professor at the Latvian National Defence Academy and Riga Technical University.