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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)