About me

I am interested in systematic themes in the history of philosophy. I mainly work in the early modern period, especially on Leibniz and Du Châtelet, but also on Wolff and other early modern rationalists. I am especially interested in the principle of contradiction, the principle of sufficient reason, the constitution of knowledge, and space and time. I have a secondary research interest in Heidegger, especially his Kant interpretation. 

I am Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Harvard working on a project on space and time in Du Châtelet. I recently completed a book on Du Châtelet's early modern metaphysics.

Before coming to 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".