Current Positions

2023 – 2024     Philosopher in Residence, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Technical University of Munich

since 2022     Visiting Lecturer, ETH Zurich

Previous Positions

2018 – 2023         Assistant Professor (Akademischer Mitarbeiter), Department of Philosophy,  University of Konstanz

2017 – 2018        Visiting Scholar, Instituto de Filosofía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

2017                         Research Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg

2016 – 2017        Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago

2012 – 2015        Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology

2010 – 2011        Post-doc Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Dresden University of Technology

2007 – 2009        Research Associate, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn

2005 – 2007        Academic Assistant, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn

Education

2015                         Habilitation (Philosophy) at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Dresden University of Technology (Thesis about the late Heidegger and a post-theistic understanding of religiosity)

2009                         Dr. phil. degree in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn (Dissertation on Reductionism in Physics)

2004– 2009         PhD student, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bonn

2004                         Diploma degree in Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics, University of Bonn (Diploma thesis on differential topology)

1999 – 2004        Studies in Mathematics at the Universities of Potsdam and Bonn

Fellowships and Awards

2024 – 2026       Research Grant from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation [postponed]

2023 – 2024       Philosopher in Residence Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Technical University of Munich

2023 – 2024     Junior Fellowship, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald [declined]

2017                         Fellow at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Hamburg

2016 – 2017        U.S.-Fellowship from the Volkswagen Foundation

2012 – 2015        Grant from the German Research Foundation

2010 – 2011        Fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation

2004                         Fellow of the Richard Wagner Foundation (Trombone)

2000 – 2004        Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)