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).

Topics I specialize in: 

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

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

Artificial intelligence: agency, motivation, the alignment problem, catastrophic and existential risks, deception, 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 and metaethics)