Academic CV
My research interests are broad, but they mostly relate some way or other to the question of what a phenomenological philosophy of natural science should look like.
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Education
2018 – currently: PhD candidate, King's College London
Research Topic:The Phenomenological Lifeworld as a Foundation of Natural Science
Primary Supervisor: Mark Textor
2018: M.A. Philosophy, LMU Munich
Dissertation Topic: Husserl's Philosophy of Natural Science and Scientific RealismThesis 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
Employment
2019-09 – currently: King's College London
Graduate Teaching Assistant for the modules:
- Belief and Decision Under Uncertainty x2 (Prof. Alexander Bird)
- Methodology x2 (Prof. Julien Dutant, Prof. Clayton Littlejohn)
- Ethics and Politics of Science and Technology (Dr. Matteo Mameli)
- Neuroscience and the Mind (Dr. Adrian Alsmith, summative assessment only)
2020-06 – currently: 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.
Research Presentations peer reviewed
2021-09-22: Husserl's Notion of Truth and Verificationist Theories of Meaning
German Phenomenological Society (DGPF) Doctoral Colloquium, Jena, Germany
2021-09-08: Ideal Verificationism and Realism
First Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology, Graz, Austria (online)
2021-09-10: Can Husserl's Notion of Truth Sustain Metaphysical Realism?
SoPhiA Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, Salzburg, Austria
2020-09-24: Phenomenological Verificationism
Start of Year Departmental Conference, King’s College London, UK
2019-09-27: Lifeworld Foundation and the Scientific Image
Presented at the 2nd Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Conference, Stony Brook University, NY, USA. (slides)
2019-08-15: Husserl's Lifeworld and the Priority of the Manifest Image
Presented at the 2019 Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen. (slides)
2018-06-14: Hermann Weyl on Causality in Physics
Presented at the International Conference: Phenomenological Approaches to Physics, University of Graz, Austria.
2016-09-22: The Vivisection of Experience
Presented at the 2nd International Conference in Philosophy of Mind, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
2016-07-02: Husserl and Carnap: Constitutional Systems and Theories of Meaning
International Undergraduate Conference in Analytic Philosophy at Bayreuth University
Scholarships and Awards
- 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: National Academic Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung)
- 2016 – 2017: DAAD Graduate Study Abroad 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. A2 / JLPT N3)
- Spanish: Basic (ca. A2)
Other Skills
- Programming (Python: pandas, scikit-learn; LaTeX; basic Octave; HPC computing on LSE's fabian and QMUL's Apocrita clusters)
- Coursera Certificate Machine Learning with Andrew Ng (verified)
- Photography and Film Editing, basic WordPress knowledge
Social Engagement
- Steering committee member and mentor for the zis-foundation (est. 1956) which offers scholarships to youth aged 16-21 to realize educational travel projects