Vitae

Education

Bielefeld University

Ph.D. in Philosophy, 6 October 2014

Dissertation: The Concept of Levels of Organization in Biology.

M.A. in Philosophy, 11 October 2010

Thesis: Explanatory Pluralism in the Philosophy of Neuroscience and Motion Adaptation Research: An Interdisciplinary Analysis.

University of Cincinnati

B.A. in Philosophy, 2007

B.A. in German Studies, 2007

Academic Employment

Principal Investigator, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Institute for Philosophy I, 2021-Present

 Visiting Lecturer, University of Münster, 2020-2021

 Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy, 2018-2021

Visiting Researcher, Saarland University, Department of Philosophy, 2019

Adjunct Instructor, Xavier University, Department of Philosophy, 2018-2019

Postdoc Fellow, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, 2015-2017

Visiting Lecturer, University of Münster, 2014-2016

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Münster, 2015

Community Activities

Journal Referee

Integrative and Comparative Biology, since 2021

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, since 2020

Biological Theory, since 2019

The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, since 2019

Perspectives on Science, since 2018

Biology and Philosophy, since 2016

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, since 2016

Synthese, since 2014

General Journal for the Philosophy of Science, since 2014

Erkenntnis, since 2013