I am a philosopher of science working on topics in general philosophy of science (especially conceptual change, experiments, and discovery), philosophy of cognitive and brain sciences, and science and society, particularly climate research and policy. My work connects detailed case studies of scientific practice to broader problems in philosophy, such as conceptual engineering, or democratic participation in science and politics.
I am currently an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, and a member of the Institute for Studies of Science at Bielefeld University, Germany. I am also an associated member of the SOCRATES group at Leibniz University Hannover. In the past I was a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge, University of Pittsburgh, Washington University St. Louis, and the MPI for Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig.
I regularly contribute to and organize interdisciplinary research groups and events. I collaborated with neuroscientists, biologists, psychologists, climate scientists, sociologists, historians of science, anthropologists and art historians. I actively seek to integrate other disciplinary perspectives and make my work useful other fields .
Upcoming activities 2026
March 24: Talk on Scientific Concepts, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, National & Kapodistrian University Athens
April 12: Commentary on Kyle Landrum "Elision, Disambiguation and Pliant Distinction, Pacific APA (Online)
April 20-24: Talk on Values and Goals in Science, Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik
May 4: Talk on AI as Metabolic Technology, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
May 6: Talk on Productive Polysemy of Scientific Language, MCMP, LMU Munich
June 2-3: Talk on Metabolism and the Medium of Computation (with David Colaço), Workshop "Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation", Ruhr-University Bochum
June 4-5: Talk on Metabolism and the Medium of Computation (with David Colaço), Workshop "Beyond Neuro-Computation" University of Antwerp.
June 22-25: Commentary on Bryce Huebner, Workshop on Concepts and Normativity, Leibniz University Hannover
July 7-8: Lecture and Workshop with Nancy Cartwright, Bielefeld University
July 21-24: Talk on Productive Polysemy in Psychology, 22nd European Conference on Personality, Edinburgh
