Most of my philosophical research originates from the question what a phenomenological philosophy of natural science should look like.
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Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC project Exiled Empiricists
Principal Investigator: Sander Verhaegh.
Postdoctoral Researcher for the project Phenomenology and the Scientific Image of the World (Postdoctoral Mandate 3H220352).
Promotors: Julia Jansen, Jan Heylen.
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)
Thesis Supervisors: Christopher Erhard, Alexander Reutlinger
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)
Research Student, Department of Philosophy, Hughes Hall College
Thesis: Carnap’s ‘Aufbau’ in a Husserlian Context. Towards a phenomenological ‘Aufbau’ or a logicist phenomenology.
Thesis Supervisor: Christopher Erhard
Exchange Student in the USTEP-Programme
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
Graduate Teaching Assistant for the modules:
Project Assistant for the Peter Sowerby Philosophy of Medicine Project
Research Assistant for Dr. Moqi Groen-Xu, School of Economics and Finance
Database matching and citation network analysis.
Occasional Research Assistant for Dr. Moqi Groen-Xu, Department of Finance
Collation and explorative analysis of metadata for 17m scientific articles (Scopus, Python)
Student Research Assistant under Dietmar Harhoff
Application of machine learning tools on patent and publication abstract databases (Python)
Programme Assistant for 2 Japanese Summer Schools
Support of lecturers, individual tutoring, organization of extracurricular activities, pastoral care for high school and undergraduate students
5 Philosophy Workshops for gifted students, 9th and 11th grade
Tutor and Research Tutor for two seminars on “Edmund Husserl: Logical Investigations”. Seminar jointly organised with Prof. Verena Mayer.
book review, invited by the journal, 2,100 words.
Empirical study of the publication and citation behaviour of UK scientists of all disciplines over 23 years. I wrote the software to match databases and aggregate observables, helped to interpret the findings and contributed to the writing of the article.
book review, peer-reviewed, 5,300 words
book review, invited by the journal, 5,000 words
97th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, Birkbeck and the Institute of Philosophy, University of London, UK
Workshop on the Concept and Scope of Knowability, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Phenomenology and Symbolic Cognition Workshop, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands
GAP11 Triannual Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
[The origin of transcendentalism in the Logical Investigations: the knowability of facts], Young Researchers seminar, University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
[Husserl’s notion of truth and verificationist theories of meaning], German Phenomenological Society (DGPF) Doctoral Colloquium, Jena, Germany
SoPhiA Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, Salzburg, Austria (online) (slides)
First Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology, Graz, Austria (online) (slides)
PHILOS Colloquium on Philosophy and Organization Studies, Rhodes, Greece (online)
Start of Year Departmental Conference, King’s College London, UK
Presented at the 2nd Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Conference, Stony Brook University, NY, USA. (slides)
Presented at the 2019 Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen. (slides)
Presented at the International Conference: Phenomenological Approaches to Physics, University of Graz, Austria.
Presented at the 2nd International Conference in Philosophy of Mind, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
International Undergraduate Conference in Analytic Philosophy at Bayreuth University
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.