Academic Employment

Junior Professor                                                                                                                Starting Oct. 2017
University of Wuppertal, IZWT/Philosophisches Seminar

Assistant Professor (non-tenure track)                                                                    2016-2017
Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Philosophy

Junior Research Fellow                                                                                                   2016
Université de Genève, Project: Space and Time After Quantum Gravity


Education

Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Science                                                                  2012 – 2016
 (under the supervision of Prof. Stephan Hartmann and Prof. Richard Dawid)
Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
Ludwig-Maximilians University, München
Title: Challenging Scientific Methodology: Theory Development and Theory Assessment in the Absence of Empirical Data

MSc in Philosophy of Science                                                                                         2010 – 2012
London School of Economics
MSc-thesis:  " ‘Explaining’ the Unexplainable. Getting the most out of Scientific Theories"

B.A. Studies in Philosophy                                                                                              2009 – 2010
Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf

Dipl.-Phys. in Theoretical Physics                                                                                 2003 – 2009
RWTH Aachen University / Germany
Major: Theoretical Particle Physics
Minor: Astrophysics/Astronomy
Dipl.-Thesis: “CP-Violating Phases of the Minimal Supersymmetric Extension of the Standard Model”

MSci Studies in Physics (Erasmus)                                                                                2005 – 2006
Queen Mary/ University of London
Project-Thesis: “D3-Brane Solution of Type IIB Supergravity and Wilson Loop Calculations in AdS/CFT”