I am a physician-scientist and a philosopher of science.

As a Ph.D. candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, my work leverages insights taken from the philosophy of science to understand what it takes to conceive of medicine as a scientific practice, and how such an account will inform medical ethics. 

Prior to coming to Notre Dame, I was trained as a physician-scientist at Charité Medical School, the joint medical school of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin. My subsequent professional career was divided between wet-lab research in transplant immunology and clinical training in anatomic pathology as well as nephrology.  I completed several wet-lab research projects across a number of immunological subdisciplines at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where I also held a postdoctoral position. My clinical research has sought to establish ML-guided molecular analysis of kidney transplant biopsies. During my training in anatomic pathology, I also worked for a Berlin-based health tech start-up that is moving AI-based image recognition into diagnostic histopathology.

My work in philosophy has grown out of a long-standing and ongoing interest in the history of science and medicine in Greek-speaking late antiquity, and how this legacy contrasts with contemporary theological anthropology. I hold an M.A. in Theology from St. Vladimir's Seminary, obtained with John Behr as my advisor.