Education
2000: Highschool Diploma (including exams in Latin and Ancient Greek) in Switzerland.
2001-2004: Basic studies of Philosophy, German Literature, and Mathematic at the University of Basel.
2004-2006: Mainstudies of Philosophy, Modern German Literature, and Mathematics at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.
2006: MA in Philosophy at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. Topic of the MA thesis: Causality and Inference: Spinoza on causal and conceptual connections.
2007-2010: Ph.D. at the Humboldt University of Berlin within the Leibniz-Award-Project “Transformations of Mind: Philosophical Psychology 1500-1750” under supervision of Dominik Perler and Johannes Haag. Title of the dissertation: Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit – Eine Untersuchung der Transformation teleologischer Erklärungen (Final Causes in the Early Modern Period – An Investigation of the Transformations of Teleological Explanations).
Since 2010: Working on a Habilitation Francisco Suárez’s metaphysics of modality.
Academic Positions
2003-2004: Student assistant to the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Basel
2004-2006: Student assistant to the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Fall 2012: Visiting Researcher at the University of Toronto (Canada)
Spring 2013:Visiting Researcher at Yale University (USA)
2009-2016: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin
June 2015: Joboffer from the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor for Early Modern Philosophy (declined)
Since Spring 2016: Professor for the History of Philosophy at the University of Hamburg
