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Gregor E. Bös

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Academic CV

My philosophical interests are wide, but my research has focused on two topics:

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Research Employment

2023-11 – currently: Tilburg University, Netherlands

Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project Exiled Empiricists

Principal Investigator: Sander Verhaegh.

2022-12 – 2023-10: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Postdoctoral Researcher for the project Phenomenology and the Scientific Image of the World (Postdoctoral Mandate 3H220352).

Promotors: Julia Jansen, Jan Heylen.

Education

2018 – 2022: PhD in Philosophy, King's College London

Research Topic: Founding Science on the Lifeworld. Promises and Problems of a Phenomenological Philosophy of Natural Science

Primary Supervisor: Mark Textor

Examiners: Julia Jansen (Leuven), Steven French (Leeds)

2018: M.A. Philosophy, LMU Munich Dissertation Topic: Husserl's Philosophy of Natural Science and Scientific Realism

Thesis Supervisors: Christopher Erhard, Alexander Reutlinger

2017: B.Sc. Physics, LMU Munich

Thesis Topic: Sequential Artificial Neural Networks for the Trigger of the Belle II Experiment

Analysis of artificial neural networks used for live analysis of data in a particle physics experiment in Tsukuba, Japan

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Christian Kiesling (LMU and Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

2016 – 2017: University of Cambridge

Research Student, Department of Philosophy, Hughes Hall College

2016: B.A. Philosophy, LMU Munich

Thesis: Carnap’s ‘Aufbau’ in a Husserlian Context. Towards a phenomenological ‘Aufbau’ or a logicist phenomenology.

Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Erhard

2014 – 2015: University of Tokyo

Exchange Student in the USTEP-Programme

Pre-University

2011 – 2012: European Voluntary Service at youth centre a.s.b.l. in Troisvierges, Luxembourg

Abitur in Baden-Württemberg (best of 123 graduates). Core subjects: physics, fine arts

Publications

See research for publications and presentations.

Other

Scholarships and Awards
  • 2021 – 2022: King’s College London Scholarship of the Department of Philosophy Postgraduate Bursary
  • 2020: King’s College London Global Research Grant. Supporting a Research Stay at the Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
  • 2018 – 2021: King’s College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities: Full PhD Scholarship
  • 2012 – 2018: Scholarship of the German National Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung)
  • 2016 – 2017: DAAD Graduate Scholarship
  • 2014 – 2015: Full Scholarship of the Japanese Student Service Organisation (JASSO)
  • 05/2015: “Green Stories” Project Scholarship for a reportage on the life in Fukushima prefecture, article published in German here and in Novo Argumente
  • 03/2014: Project Scholarship from the German-French Youth Organisation: This is art. Can we trash it? On the administration of artists’ heritages. Sojourn in Paris
  • Jean-Walter prize of the zis-foundation for the reportage: The philosophy of physicists. Fundamental Research and Multicultural Context at CERN, previously project scholarship
Languages
  • German: Mother Tongue
  • English: C2 certified
  • French: Competent (ca. C1)
  • Japanese: Basic (ca. B1 / JLPT N3)
  • Spanish: Basic (ca. A2)
Employment pre-PhD
2019-09 – 2022: King's College London

Graduate Teaching Assistant for the modules:

  • Belief and Decision Under Uncertainty x2 (Alexander Bird)
  • Methodology x2 (Julien Dutant, Clayton Littlejohn)
  • Ethics and Politics of Science and Technology (Matteo Mameli)
  • Neuroscience and the Mind (Adrian Alsmith, summative assessment only)
2020-06 – 2021-09: King's College London, Sowerby Project

Project Assistant for the Peter Sowerby Philosophy of Medicine Project

2020-04 – 2020-09: Queen Mary, University of London

Research Assistant for Dr. Moqi Groen-Xu, School of Economics and Finance

Database matching and citation network analysis.

2018-12 – 2020-04: London School of Economics

Occasional Research Assistant for Dr. Moqi Groen-Xu, Department of Finance

Collation and explorative analysis of metadata for 17m scientific articles (Scopus, Python)

2017-10 – 2018-09: Max-Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich

Student Research Assistant under Dietmar Harhoff

Application of machine learning tools on patent and publication abstract databases (Python)

2017-08 and 2018-03: Pembroke College, Cambridge

Programme Assistant for 2 Japanese Summer Schools

Support of lecturers, individual tutoring, organization of extracurricular activities, pastoral care for high school and undergraduate students

2016-07 – 2018-07: Government of Upper Bavaria

5 Philosophy Workshops for gifted students, 9th and 11th grade

2015-10 – 2016-07: LMU Munich

Tutor and Research Tutor for two seminars on “Edmund Husserl: Logical Investigations”. Seminar jointly organised with Prof. Verena Mayer.

Other Skills
  • Full-stack python programming, with specialty in data science and natural language processing, elisp, LaTeX
  • Photography and Graphic design
Civic Engagement

I am steering committee member (since 2019) and mentor (since 2015) for the educational zis-foundation (est. 1956). We offer mentoring and scholarships to let youth aged 16-21 realize international travel projects.