I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, located at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. I contribute as an AI ethicist to the K3I-Cycling project, funded by the German ministry for education and research.

In April 2023, I passed my PhD defense in Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, supervised by Prof. Albert Newen and Prof. Colin Allen. I hold master's degrees in Philosophy (University of Bonn, 2021) and Mind, Language, and Embodied Cognition (University of Edinburgh, 2020).

Besides, I am a research assistant at the Global Priorities Institute, located at Oxford University, and an advisor for Effective Thesis.

Topics I specialize in: 

Consciousness: animal sentience, artificial sentience, neuroscientific and computational theories of consciousness, metaphysics of consciousness

Moral weight research: animal welfare, moral status of animals and artificial systems, ethics under uncertainty of moral weights

Artificial intelligence: catastrophic and existential risks from AI, value alignment, agency, policy

Areas I am particularly interested in: 

Philosophy of mind and cognition

Philosophy of science

Applied ethics (esp. AI, animal, and bioethics)

Normative ethics (esp. moral uncertainty, population ethics, and consequentialism)

Metaphilosophy (esp. research on philosophy teaching)