About me

I am interested in systematic themes in the History of Philosophy and questions on the principles of knowledge, being and related concepts, space and time. I mainly work in the Early Modern Period, especially on Leibniz and Du Châtelet, but also on Wolff and other Early Modern rationalists. My interest is also pushing me towards the Middle Ages. I have a strong interest in Heidegger, whom I have published a book and articles on, especially in his Kant interpretation.

As of July 2024 I have been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Harvard working on a project on Space and Time in Du Châtelet but embedded in the question on space and time in the history of philosophy leading up to Du Châtelet, beginning with Aristotle through the Middle Ages.

From October 2023 until July 2024 I worked on a DFG funded research project on Émilie Du Châtelet’s Theory of Hypotheses in Relation to the Principles of Knowledge at the Philosophy Department at Paderborn University.

I was Associate Faculty in Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 2023 on a DAAD scholarship working on Du Châtelet's Contribution to the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the Early Modern Period, especially in relation to Leibniz and Wolff.

I was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Paderborn University, Germany from 2020-2022, working and teaching mainly in Early Modern. Prior to this, I was for 2 years a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University on a DFG research grant. My research project was concerned with the role of representation and the senses in the Early Modern Period leading up to Kant. One aim of this undertaking was to include an important chapter on this theme from the Early Modern Period by acknowledging and investigating Du Châtelet's contribution to it. Following Harvard, I was a Research Fellow at the HU Berlin for 2 months as an extension of the project.

I completed my PhD at Freiburg University with a summa cum laude. Prior to my DFG-Research Fellowship, I was a Fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the FAZIT Foundation and the Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds. Prior to my Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University I was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard and a Recognised Student at the University of Oxford.