Curriculum Vitae

Employment

[10/’18 – ] Postdoctoral Researcher (Onderzoeker) at the Department of Theoretical Philosophy, Philosophical Faculty, University of Groningen, Netherlands.

[10/’10 – 09/’18] Research Fellow (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

[04/’10 – 05/’10] Research Assistant (wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Salzburg

[10/’08 – 01/’09] Teaching Assistant (Studienassistent), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Salzburg

[10/’07 – 02/’08] Tutor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Salzburg

Involvement in Research Projects

[10/’18 – ] External member of the DFG funded research unit Inductive Metaphysics (FOR 2495).

[04/’17 – 09/’18] Member of the DFG funded research unit Inductive Metaphysics (FOR 2495), subproject B5: Statistical Causation, Intervention, and Freedom.

[01/’13 – 12/’15] Member of the DFG funded research unit Causation, Laws, Dispositions, Explanation: At the Intersection of Science and Metaphysics (FOR 1063), subproject P1: Causality and its Empirical Applications.

[10/’10 – 12/’12] Member of the DFG funded research unit Causation, Laws, Dispositions, Explanation: At the Intersection of Science and Metaphysics (FOR 1063), subproject P1: Causality and Explanation.

Education

[01/’16] Doctor philosophiae (graduation with distinction: summa cum laude; supervisor #1: G. Schurz, supervisor #2: M. Schrenk), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

[07/’10] Magister philosophiae (graduation with distinction; supervisor: R. Kleinknecht), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences, University of Salzburg

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News

[November 1, 2018] Paper on how to handle counterexamples to the causal Markov condition such as Cartwright’s chemical factory published in Synthese. The paper is co-authored with Nina Retzlaff. Check out the draft version here or the final version here.

[October 31, 2018] Going to PSA 2018!

[October 20, 2018] New paper co-authored with Christian Feldbacher-Escamilla on modeling creative abduction available as advance online publication in the European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Check it out here. You find the draft version here.

[September 10, 2018] In October I will start a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. Looking forward to a great time at a terrific research institution.

[June 8, 2018] A new paper on hybrid models of mechanisms which combine causal Bayes nets and cellular automata I wrote together with Daniel Koch has been accepted for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science — hurray! A draft version of the paper is available here.

[April 25, 2018] I’m giving a talk on Stuart Glennan’s mechanistic account of higher-level causation at the MCMP today. The idea is to reconstruct the account in terms of causal Bayes nets in order to identify several assumptions one has to make to get Stuart’s analysis working.

[April 15, 2018] I’ve started editing the PhilPapers categories Causal Reasoning, Causal Modeling, and Causal Reasoning, Misc.

[December 10, 2017] The call for papers for SOPhiA 2018 is out. The conference will be held September 12-14, 2018 in the beatiful city of Salzburg. Our plenary speakers for 2018 are Elisa Aatola, Helen Beebee, and Wolfgang Künne. There will also be a couple of affiliated workshops on various topics within analytic philosophy. For details about SOPhiA 2018 and how to submit, check out our website.

[October 15, 2017] I have edited a special issue of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science together with Christian Feldbacher-Escamilla and Gerhard Schurz featuring selected papers of the second international conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science 2016 (GWP.2016). It has recently been published. Here is the link to the special issue.

[October 7, 2017] My paper on modeling the causal exclusion problem and some consequences for the exclusion debate within interventionism in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research is out. Check it out here. You find a draft version of the paper here.

[October 6, 2017] My paper on constitutive relevance discovery in Philosophical Studies has finally been assigned to an issue. Klick here for the final publication. A draft version is available here.

[September 9, 2017] I wrote a paper together with Daniel Koch and Robert Eisinger in which we develop a causal Bayesian model of disease progression mechanisms in CML. So happy that it has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. Check it out here. Klick here for a draft version.

[June 28, 2017] The report on the GWP.2016 conference I wrote together with Alexander Christian and Christian Feldbacher-Escamilla has finally been published. Check it out here. A draft can be found here.

[June 16, 2017] I am organizing a workshop on challenges for theories of causation (such as mental or negative causation) together with David Hommen and Gerhard Schurz. It will take place on July 6-7. Click here for details.

[February 8, 2017] I received the Best Ph.D. Thesis Prize from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Duesseldorf. Klick here for details. A reworked version of my thesis has just been published in the Synthese Library book series (Springer). You find it here.

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