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 - 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

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Early Modern Philosophy (esp. Leibniz and Du Châtelet), 20th Century Philosophy (esp. Heidegger), Kant

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

History of Philosophy, Aristotle, Wolff

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

10/23- 09/24 DFG Research Project: “Émilie Du Châtelet’s Theory of Hypotheses in Relation to the Principles of Knowledge”

2023 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

24/05/24 Hypotheses in Du Châtelet

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 

22. Feb. 2020 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

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2020 Organizer with Jeffrey McDonough of International Workshop on Du Châtelet at Harvard University

2013- 2014 Organizer of the 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 für phänomenologische Forschung e.V.

DGphil

European Society for Early Modern Philosophy 

Kant Gesellschaft e.V.

Martin-Heidegger Gesellschaft

North American Kant Society

Society for the Study of Women Philosophers

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women

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LANGUAGES

German: Native / bilingual proficiency

English: Bilingual proficiency

French: Professional Working Proficiency

Spanish: Elementary Proficiency

Latinum: Certificate of Latin

Graecum: Certificate of Ancient Greek