ACADEMIC POSITIONS
07/24- Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
10/23 - 06/24 Head of the DFG Project “Émilie Du Châtelet’s Theory of Hypotheses in Relation to the Principles of Knowledge”, Department of Philosophy, Paderborn University
2023 Associate Faculty, Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford
2020 - 2022 Assistant Professor, Paderborn University
2020 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center of Advanced Studies in the Humanities ‘Human Abilities’, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2018 – 2020 Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, Harvard University
2018 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
2013 - 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University College Freiburg and University of Freiburg
2013 - 2014 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
2012 - 2013 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
EDUCATION
09/18 – 02/20 Harvard University Teaching Certificate
2014 - 2018 PhD in Philosophy, summa cum laude, University of Freiburg
Jan. 2016 - Dec. 16 Visiting Fellow, Harvard University
Mar. 2015 - June 15 Graduate Research Student, University of Oxford
2011 - 2013 M.A. in Philosophy and Politics, summa cum laude, University of Freiburg
2006 - 2013 State examination German Literature, summa cum laude (Teaching Degree equivalent to M.A.), University of Freiburg
2006 - 2013 State Examination Philosophy and Politics, summa cum laude, (Teaching Degree equivalent to M.A.), University of Freiburg
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
07/24 -06/26 Feodor-Lynen Grant of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
04/25 FAS Provostial Funding for 2 day Workshop "Metaphysics and Theology 1050-1750", Harvard University
10/23- 09/24 DFG Research Project: “Émilie Du Châtelet’s Theory of Hypotheses in Relation to the Principles of Knowledge”
03/23-10/23 DAAD Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Oxford
2022 Collaborator in the DFG Research Project: Du Châtelet’s Relation to Leibniz and Wolff – Similarities and Differences, together with Mercator Fellow Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University) and Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn University)
2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG "Rückkehrstipdenium"), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
2018 – 2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
2014 - 2018 PhD Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), full PhD funding
2017 Travel Award, Époque Emilienne, Paderborn University
2015 - 2016 PhD Fellow of the FAZIT-Foundation. Grant for GSAS Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University
2016 Research Abroad Fellowship for GSAS Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University, German National Academic Foundation
2016 Fellow of the Kölner Gymnasial- and Stiftungsfonds. Research Grant for GSAS Visiting Fellowship at Harvard University
2015 Research Abroad Fellowship for Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship, Oxford University, German National Academic Foundation
2015 Fellow of the Kölner Gymnasial- and Stiftungsfonds. Research Grant for University of Oxford
2014 Publishing Award, FwPF
TEACHING
S/S 22 Émilie Du Châtelet on Knowledge, Paderborn University
S/S 22 Christian Wolff’s Ontology, Paderborn University
W/S 21/22 The Role of the Recogniton of Nature for Metaphysics in Kant, Paderborn University
W/S 21/22 Descartes’ Mind Body Dualism in Light of his Correspondence with Elisabeth, Paderborn University
W/S 2020 Kant's Aim in the Critique of Pure Reason
W/S 2020 The Early Modern Rationalists, Paderborn University
S/S 2020 The Philosophy of Émilie du Châtelet, with Prof. Dr. Jeffrey McDonough, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
2019 Key Concepts of the Critique of Pure Reason in German and English Reading Group for Graduate Students and Faculty, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
2018 The Concept of Time in Martin Heidegger, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
2013 - 2015 An Introduction to Political Philosophy (Plato to Arendt), in English, Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Freiburg
2013 - 2014 Kant’s Analytic of Principles, Co-Instructor, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
2012 - 2013 Main Concepts of Aristotle’s Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
TALKS
19/04/2025 Idealism and Realism in Du Châtelet's Notions of Space and Time, Pacific APA, San Francisco
09/04/2025 The Notion of Space in Émilie Du Châtelet, Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University
26/10/2024 Du Châtelet's Discourse on Happiness: Happiness as the Purpose of Human Life, Women and Epistemic Emotions Workshop, organized by Allauren Forbes and Elena Gordon, McMaster University
24/05/24 Hypotheses in Du Châtelet, Du Châtelet's Scientific Methodology workshop, organized by Clara Carus, Paderborn University
13/02/24 Antizipationen von Immanuel Kants kritischer Philosophie in Émilie Du Châtelet, Kongress Formen der Rationalität – Kant und die Moderne, organized by Heiner F. Klemme, John Walsh, Falk Wunderlich, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
02/02/24 L'exposition épistémologique innovante du PRS par Du Châtelet - malgré ses incohérences en ce qui concerne la postulation de Dieu et de ce monde en tant que sa creation, Conference L’Humanité genrée: les femmes entre philosophie et religion dans la première modernité, organized by Susanna Seguin and Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin, Université de Lyon
13/11/23 The (Un-)Intelligibility of ‘Sufficient Reason’ to the Human Being in Leibniz, Paul Lodge’s and Julia Borcherding ‘ Leibniz Research Group, University of Oxford
20/11/23 A Commentary on Catherine Wilson’s Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of the 18th Century, University of Oxford
07/11/23 Du Châtelet’s Contribution to the History of the PSR, Guest Lecture, Keele University
12/09/23 Keynote Address: Du Châtelet’s Metaphysical Foundations – A Leibnizian-Wolffian Underpinning?, 6th FINO Graduate Conference, University of Pavia, Italy
01/08/23 The Unity of the Principle of Contraction in Leibniz, Leibniz Kongress, Hannover, Germany
04/05/23 Du Châtelet’s Simple Beings in Comparison to Leibnizian Monads, SSEMP, St. Andrews, UK
08/03/2023 Simple Beings in Du Châtelet, Epistemology and Metaphysics, Paris Nanterre University, France
09/02/2023 Comparing Du Châtelet and Kant's epistemological approach to Time and Space, Dynamics and Reason: Workshop on Du Châtelet and Kant, Paderborn University, Germany
25/10/22 The Principle of Contradiction in Émilie Du Châtelet, SEMPY Talk, Yale University, USA
21/10/22 Commentary on Qiu Lins The extended-to relations in Du Châtelet, LSNA, Princeton University, USA
29/09/22 The Principle of Contradiction in Émilie Du Châtelet – A Comparative Study on Leibniz, Wolff and Du Châtelet, Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff – Similarities and Differences, Paderborn University, Germany
21/04/22 An Analysis of Space and Time – Du Châtelet’s unique Position in the ‘Absolute’ versus ‘Relative’ Debate, British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Congress, Royal Society Edinburgh, UK
20/04/22 Émilie Du Châtelet's Novel Approach to the Principles of Knowledge in the Rationalist Tradition, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas- UNAM, Mexico
08/12/21 Hannah Arendt’s Distinction between Philosophy and Politics, Bar Ilan University, Israel
12/12/21 Absolute versus Relative – Émilie Du Châtelet on the Formation of the Concept of Space, STS Study Department, Bar Ilan University, Israel
23/11/21 Relative versus Absolute - Du Châtelet's unique approach to the concept of space, Workshop: Space and Time: 18th -19th Century Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University
15/10/21 Émilie Du Châtelet’s Principles of Knowledge – An analysis, X Jornadas de Filosofía Moderna, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
10/10/21 Émilie Du Châtelet’s Principles of Knowledge in their epistemic and their ontic dimension, 10e Séminaire Québécois en philosophie modern, Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières
05/10/21 Émilie Du Châtelet’s Determination of ‚a Being’, Princeton-Bucharest Seminar, Panel on Émilie du Châtelet’s Epistemic Foundations
08/09/21 Du Châtelets Begriff des Prinzips im Vergleich zu Descartes und Leibniz, Arbeitsgruppe für Frauen in der Philosophiegeschichte, XXV. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Erlangen-Nürnberg
19.-22/07/21 ‘An Analysis of Ideas’ – An Elucidation of Du Châtelet's Newfound Approach to the Determination of Concepts, IAP Konferenz, Paderborn
22/02/20 The Underlying Principles of Émilie du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique – Bridging Empiricism and Rationalism, Workshop on Émilie du Châtelet, Harvard University, MA, USA
2017 The Concept of Time in Du Châtelet: History of Philosophy between Leibniz and Kant, Epoque Emilienne. Philosophy and Science from 1700-1750 with a special reference to Emilie Du Châtelet, Paderborn Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn Germany
2016 Time as Mediator between the A priori and A posteriori in Kant, Annual Congress of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2016 Self-Consciousness as Actus and Principium of the Understanding in Kant, Harvard-Yale History of Philosophy Conference, Harvard University, MA, USA
2016 Is Time Truly A priori?, The Philosophers’ Forum Graduate Gateway Conference, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
2016 Commentary on Samantha Matherne’s Kant’s Theory of Analogies, Third Biennial Meeting, North American Kant Society, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
2015 Heidegger’s Conception of Time in English Language Research, Studienstiftung, PhD Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany
2013 Heidegger’s Interpretation of Time in Kant’s Analytic of Principles, PhD Colloquium, Wiesneck, Germany
2010 A Legitimization of Human Rights on the Basis of Kant’s Dignity of Man, Conference on Human Rights and Human Dignity, Beuggen Castle, Germany
CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
2025 2 day workshop: Metaphysics and Theology 1050-1750, (with Jeffrey McDonough), funded by FAS Provostial Funds, Harvard University
2024 2 day workshop: Émilie Du Châtelet's Theory of Hypotheses in Relation to the Principles of Knowledge, funded by DFG, Paderborn University
2022 3 day conference Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff - Similarities and Differences, (with Jeffrey McDonough) funded by DFG, Paderborn University
2022 New Voices Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet
2022 Symposium on Du Châtelet's Versatility at the British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference, Edinburgh University
2022 1st New Voices International Conference on Women in the History of Philosophy with over 70 speakers, Paderborn University
2022 New Voices Talk Series Women in History on Education
2021 New Voices Talk Series Early Modern Women on Knowledge
2020 (With Jeffrey McDonough) International Workshop on Du Châtelet and the History of Philosophy, Harvard University
2013 Research Project Time-Travel. Every-day life and experience in historical biographical documents, funded by the Robert-Bosch Foundation
2013 Co-Organizer, Conference and Workshop with John Dunn, University of Cambridge, Why do we need a global history of political thought?, University of Freiburg, Germany
MEMBERSHIPS
Émilie Du Châtelet Society
Leibniz Gesellschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft der Humboldtianer e.V.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung e.V.
DGphil
Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts
European Society for Early Modern Philosophy
Kant Gesellschaft e.V.
Martin-Heidegger Gesellschaft
Christian Wolff Gesellschaft
New Voices
LANGUAGES
German: Native / bilingual proficiency
English: Bilingual proficiency
French: Professional Working Proficiency
Spanish: Elementary Proficiency
Latinum: Certificate of Latin
Graecum: Certificate of Ancient Greek