About me

I am a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, working at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (LMU), on the topic of understanding in climate science.

I received my MA in theoretical philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest in 2005, and I continued my studies in the same institution where I received my PhD in March 2010, with a thesis on the philosophy of mathematics. After that I worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch and I spent time in Munich, Brussels, Essen and Ghent as a research fellow. I have authored two books and published several papers in journals such as Acta Analytica, Theoria, Logique et Analyse, and the Journal For General Philosophy of Science. I have a wide interest in topics related to scientific understanding and explanation, the problem of the existence of mathematical explanations of physical phenomena, the metaphysical problem of realism, and I am specialized in the history and the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of mathematics.

I am a researcher in philosophy but for me philosophy is not a profession, but a way of life shaped by the need to know, to understand what is going on around me. This may sound cheesy, but it is how I feel.