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Academic positions

• 04/2020 – 04/2022 & 04/2023 – 04/2027 
  Ruhr University Bochum
  Postdoctoral researcher at the department of philosophy II 
• 04/2022 – 04/2023
  Birkbeck, University of London
  Postdoctoral researcher at the departement of psychological sciences
• 01/2016 – 06/2019 & 10/2019 – 03/2020
  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  Postdoctoral researcher at the Duesseldorf Center for Logic and Philosophy of
  Science
• 01/2012 – 09/2014
  University of Konstanz
  Postdoctoral researcher at the department of philosophy
• 09/2011 – 12/2011
  Saarland University
  Researcher at the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science
• 04/2008 – 08/2010
  Saarland University
  Doctoral researcher at the department of philosophy

Education

• 2023 Habilitation in philsophy, Ruhr University Bochum
  Thesis on concepts: Representation, Reasoning & Revisions 
• 2012 PhD in philosophy, Saarland University
  Thesis on the logic and semantics of normality statements, supervised by Niko
  Strobach, Ulrich Nortmann (summa cum laude)
• 2006 M.A. in philosophy (minor: German linguistics), University of Rostock
  Thesis on paraconsistent logic, supervised by Niko Strobach
• 2004 B.A. in philosophy (minor: German language and literature), University of Rostock
  Thesis on the law of excluded contradiction, supervised by Bertram Kienzle

Grants, Awards and Fellowships

• 2022: DFG Grant for ``The role of similarity and inference in concepts'' (€324.530)
• 2021: Open Access fund from the Ruhr University Bochum (€1,200)
• 2019: Travel Grant for ESSLLI 2019 by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (€370) 
• 2018: DFG Grant for "The Generalized Theory of Evolution" (€5.350) 
• 2014: Honorary Scholarship of Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (€4.500) 
• 2014: Eduard-Martin-Preis for the best PhD theses of the Saar University (€500) 
• 2014: Fellowship by the University of Konstanz (€17.900) 
• 2010: Fellowship by graduate scholarship program (€10.900) 
• 2010: Grant for a workshop by GAP with N. Strobach (€1.000) 
• 2010: Travel Grant for Cultures of Knowledge by DAAD (€400) 
• 2007: Travel Grant for First World Congress on the Square of Oppositon
  by the Friedrich-und-Irmgard-Harms Stiftung (€400)