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: King's College London, PhD candidate

Research Topic: The Phenomenological Lifeworld as a Foundation of Natural Science

Primary Supervisor: Mark Textor

2018: LMU Munich, M.A. Philosophy

Dissertation Topic: Husserl's Philosophy of Natural Science and Scientific Realism

Thesis Supervisors: Christopher Erhard, Alexander Reutlinger

2017: LMU Munich, B.Sc. Physics

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: LMU Munich, B.A. Philosophy

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

High School Diploma (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

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