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 a Summer School with Prof. Owen Flanagan at Harvard University, USA
2008 Teaching Assistant for Prof. 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
04/2023-09/2023 Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Human Abilities”, Berlin
07/2007-01/2009 Visiting Doctoral 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
2023 Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities “Human Abilities”, Berlin
2021 Grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a Pilot Research Project on Investigating the Developmental Foundations of Intellectual Humility ($20.000)
2020 Grant from the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation for a Workshop on “Reassessing the Relationship between Phenomenology and Explanation” (co-organized with Heath Williams) (€12.000)
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)
2010 DFG grant for a conference on self-consciousness (co-organized with Katja Crone & Anna Strasser) (€5000)
2007-2010 Various travel grants from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain
2007-2010 PhD Fellowship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
2002-2006 Scholarship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)