Academic Positions

  • since 02/2021
    Permanent Research and Teaching Fellow ("Akademischer Rat auf Lebenszeit") in the Department of Philosophy at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
     
  • 04/2020 - 09/2020
    Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Studies "Human Abilities" by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin
     
  • early 2019
    Assistant Professorship ("Juniorprofessur", for 3+3 years, with tenure track) in the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at TU Dortmund University (declined in favor of an improved offer from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
     
  • 03/2018 - 01/2021
    Assistant Professor ("Juniorprofessur", for 4+2 years, with tenure track) in the Department of Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (ended in favor of the permanent position in Düsseldorf)
     
  • 04/2017 - 02/2018
    Research and Teaching Fellow ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") in the Department of Philosophy at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, associated with the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, Prof. Wolfgang Barz
     
  • 10/2016 - 03/2017
    Stand-in Chair of Theoretical Philosophy (succeeding Prof. Holm Tetens) in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin (same offer in 2015 declined in favor of the position in Münster)
     
  • 10/2015 - 09/2016
    Research and Teaching Fellow ("Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben") in the Department of Philosophy at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
      
  • 10/2014 - 04/2015
    Parental Leave
     
  • 10/2009 - 09/2015
    Research and Teaching Fellow ("Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter") in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin, associated with the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, Prof. Holm Tetens
     
  • 10/2008 - 08/2009
    Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin
     
  • 10/2005 - 08/2007
    Teaching Assistant in the Department of Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin

Awards

Education

  • 08/2014
    PhD in philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin
    overall grade "summa cum laude"
    Dissertation "The Concept of Competence. A Rylean Responsibilist Account of Know-how", Supervisors Prof. Holm Tetens and Prof. Tobias Rosefeldt, submitted 05/2014
     
  • 05/2009
    Master's Degree from Freie Universität Berlin
    overall grade “sehr gut” (1.0)
    MA Thesis “Consequences of Deflationism. A Study of Robert Brandom's Anaphoric Theory of Truth and Reference”, Supervisors Prof. Holm Tetens and Prof. Georg Bertram, submitted 02/2009
     
  • 09/2007 - 06/2008
    Visiting Graduate Student at Stanford University, USA
     
  • 10/2003 - 05/2009
    Studies in Philosophy (Major), Political Science and Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin
     
  • 03/2002
    Highest German Secondary School Degree (Abitur) at Max-von-Laue Gymnasium in Koblenz, overall grade “gut” (1.7)

Fellowships

  • 09/2007 - 06/2008
    Travel Grant by the German-American Fulbright Commission for Visiting Studies at Stanford University
     
  • 09/2007 - 06/2008
    Foreign Exchange Fellowship by Stanford University for Autumn, Winter and Spring terms
     
  • 01/2006 - 06/2009
    Fellowship by the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)