Curriculum Vitae

Employment

[04/’17 – ] Research Fellow within the DFG funded research unit Inductive Metaphysics (FOR 2495), Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

[10/’10 – 03/’17] Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

[10/’10 – 12/’15] Research Fellow within the DFG funded research unit Causation, Laws, Dispositions, Explanation: At the Intersection of Science and Metaphysics (FOR 1063), Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf

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

[10/’08 – 01/’09] Teaching Assistant, 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

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

[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.

[February 7, 2017] New short paper on causal exclusion has been published in Abstracta – Linguagem, Mente e Ação. Klick here for the final publication or here for a draft version.

[February 4, 2017] The CfP for this year’s SOPhiA graduate conference (September 13-15, Salzburg) is out. We are looking forward to welcome Johannes Brandl, Christian List, Michela Massimi, and Stathis Psillos as this year’s plenary speakers. Click here for more infos about SOPhiA 2017 and the CfP.

[January 11, 2017] My book Causal nets, interventionism, and mechanisms: Philosophical foundations and applications in Synthese Library (Springer) has been published. Check it out here. A draft version is available here.

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