About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher working in philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. 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. In 2025 I will spend some time at Rotman Institute of Philosophy. 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 astrophysics (what, if anything, is distinct about the epistemic situation and nature of evidence in astronomy? what roles numerical methods play in astrophysical inferences? in what ways we can "access" black holes?);

• general relativity (what should we think of various examples of failures of determinism in GR? what are the epistemic limitations of our access to global spacetime structure? what can we say about the interior structure of black holes?);

• and conceptual problems in QFT in curved spacetime & quantum gravity (what makes a spacetime model physically reasonable? what roles inter-theoretic relationships play in interpretation of spacetime theories?).

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.