I am a postdoctoral researcher ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") at the Chair for Philosophy of Mind, located at the Ruhr-University Bochum.

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

I am an alumnus member at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research, located at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and directed by Vincent Müller, I will be a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics in 2026, hosted by Jonathan Birch, and I was a research assistant at Oxford University (Global Priorities Institute).

Research topics I specialize in: 

Consciousness: animal sentience, artificial sentience, neuroscientific and computational theories, metaphysics, evolution and affect

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

Artificial intelligence: agency, motivation, alignment, catastrophic and existential risks, deception and policy

Teaching philosophy: text selection, student motivation and philosophy of AI education

I teach widely in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, applied ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. I teach the latter two topics from contemporary as well as Kantian and Wittgensteinian perspectives.