About me

I am a researcher working in philosophy of physics and philosophy of science. In 2025 I will spend some time at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy (thanks to the QISS!).  I am affiliated with the Harvard University's Black Hole Initiative and involved in the next generation Event Horizon Telescope, where I am co-leading a History, Philosophy, and Culture focus group on Algorithms, Inference, and Visualization. For the last few years I have worked in the Lichtenberg Group for History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn. More generally, my work focuses on:

• philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics (what is distinct about the epistemic situation and nature of evidence in astronomy? what roles numerical methods play in astrophysical inferences? how we can have access to black holes?),

• foundations of general relativity (what should we think of various failures of determinism in GR? what are the epistemic limitations of our access to global spacetime structure? what can be established about interiors of black holes?),

• and conceptual problems in QFT in curved spacetime & search for a theory of quantum gravity (what makes a spacetime model physically reasonable? what roles inter-theoretic relationships play in interpretation of spacetime theories and assessment of particular models? do spacetime singularities persist in semi-classical gravity?).

My other academic interests include human enhancement; ethical, social, and legal issues in space exploration; history of general relativity; and mathematical logic. My PhD is from Jagiellonian University in Cracow; in 2020 my dissertation (on determinism in general relativity) received a Polish prime minister prize for outstanding research. My Erdős number is 4; my Linnemann number is 1.