Employment
2018 – Faculty member, International Max Planck Research School on Neuroscience of Communication, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
09/2015 – Professor of Cognitive Anthropology (W2), Department of Philosophy, Universität Leipzig, Germany & Board member and PI at the Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development
09/2013 – 08/2015 Junior Professor of Neurophilosophy (W1), Department of Philosophy, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
09/2010 – 08/2013 LSE Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method & Deputy Director of the Forum for European Philosophy, London, UK
2008 Teaching Assistant for Summer School with Owen Flanagan at Harvard University, USA
2008 Teaching Assistant for Jerry Samet at Brandeis University, USA
2004 – 2006 Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Magdeburg
Education
2007-2011 Ph.D., Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Germany.
2002-2006 M.A. Philosophy & Dipl. (MSc) Neuroscience, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany
2000-2002 Philosophy & Human Biology (Pre-Dipl.), Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Visiting Positions
07/2007-01/2009 Visiting Student at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, USA (advisor: Alex Byrne)
09/2003-04/2004 Visiting Researcher at the Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy (advisor: Michele Papa)
Grants & Awards
2014-2019 Member of the “Junge Akademie” of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2014 Grant from the Udo Keller Stiftung Forum Humanum for a workshop on “Minimal Mindreading” (co-organized with Ramiro Glauer) (€4000)
2007-2010 PhD Fellowship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2007-2010 Various travel grants from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
2010 DFG grant for a conference on self-consciousness (co-organized with Katja Crone & Anna Strasser) (€5000)
2002-2006 Scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)