About me

I work in the history of philosophy and am especially interested in the science of metaphysics, the constitution of knowledge, the principles of knowledge, space and time. I have mainly published on Émilie Du Châtelet, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, and Martin Heidegger. My main research focus lies in the early modern period, but I have expertise in medieval philosophy, German Idealism, and 20th Century phenomenology.

I am Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Heidelberg University in conjunction with Harvard. I am working on a project on space and time in Du Châtelet. I completed my habilitation qualification this year. I also recently completed a book on Du Châtelet's early modern metaphysics.

Before coming to Heidelberg and Harvard I worked on a DFG sponsored research project on the theory of hypotheses in relation to the principles of knowledge in Du Châtelet at Paderborn University. Further details about the project can be found here:  https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/516617151?language=en

I'm currently editing the volume "Émilie Du Châtelet's Scientific Methodology", which is forthcoming with OUP, together with Peter Anstey.

In 2023, I was Associate Faculty at the University of Oxford and wrote a book on the principle of sufficient reason in Du Châtelet. My research project was funded by the DAAD.

From 2020-22, I was Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Paderborn University and co-investigator in the research project "Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff. Similarities and Differences", together with Ruth Hagengruber (PI) and Jeffrey McDonough (Mercator Fellow). 

Together with Jeffrey McDonough, I recently published the edited volume "Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff. Similarities and Differences".