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

[May 17, 2020] My paper co-authored with Maria Sekatskaya and Gerhard Schurz on free will, control, the possibility to do otherwise from a causal modeling perspective is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis. Check out the draft here.

[March 29, 2020] The German Research Foundation (DFG) decided to fund my research project on the theoretical foundation of inter-level experiments in mechanistic systems. It is a three years project and will start at the MCMP in October. I am really excited about it.

[December 9, 2019] The CfP for the next SOPhiA conference for young analytic philosophers is out (click here)! The next SOPhiA will take place from 2 to 4 September, 2020 in Salzburg (as every year). This time the plenary talks will be given by Marian David (University of Graz), Leah Henderson (University of Groningen), and Herlinde Pauer-Studer (University of Vienna). Please spread the word and if you are a philosophy (BA, MA, or PhD) student, consider submitting a proposal for a talk.

[August 12, 2019] Florian Fischer and I have a new paper on analysing dispositions within an interventionist framework forthcoming in Synthese. We compare the approach with classical conditional analyses and discuss new solutions to problems posed by masks, mimickers, and finks. You can find the draft here.

[July 11, 2019] My paper on fleshing out Stuart Glennan's mechanistic account of higher-level causation in terms of lower-level causation and constitution and causal Bayes nets has been accepted for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Check out the draft here.

[May 12, 2019] New paper on analogical reasoning within the Bayesian framework accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Check out the draft version here.

[April 21, 2019] New paper on establishing backward causation on empirical grounds accepted for publication in Thought: A Journal of Philosophy. Check out the final version here or the draft version here.

[January 29, 2019] The call for papers for SOPhiA 2019 is out. The tenth SOPhiA graduate conference will be held September 18-20, 2019 in Salzburg, Austria. This year's plenary speakers are Hilary Greaves, Philip Kitcher, and Hannes Leitgeb. There will also be a best paper award. For details, check out the conference's website.

[November 1, 2018] New 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.

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