CV
Work Experience
since 06/2018
Professor for Philosophy of Science (W3), Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University, Germany
10/2023 – 06/2024
Parental leave, part-time work
11/2019 – 09/2023
Vice-Rector for Personnel Development and Gender Equality, Bielefeld University, Germany
10/2018 – 10/2019
Parental leave, part-time work
02/2018
Offer from the University of Mainz as a Full Professor and Director of the Studium generale
10/2016 – 05/2018
Junior Professor for Philosophy of Science, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University, Germany [Eintrag ersetzen (Formulierung geändert): “since 10/2016: Assistant Professor…]
08 – 09/2016
Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary, Kanada
09/2013 – 09/2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, DFG Research Group “Causation and Explanation”, Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany
09/2012 – 08/2013
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva, Switzerland
11/2009 – 08/2012
Research Fellow, DFG Research Group “Causation and Explanation”, Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne (since 04/2010)/ University of Münster, Germany
01 – 05/2010 + 04/2013
Visiting Scholar, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, USA
05/2007 – 09/2010
Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy & Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Münster, Germany
Education
10/2007 – 07/2012
PhD studies, University of Cologne (since 10/2010)/ University of Münster, Germany
PhD examination in philosophy (Dr. phil.); PhD thesis on “An Ontic Account of Explanatory Reduction in Biology”; Advisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hüttemann; final grade: summa cum laude
04/2005 – 04/2007
Master studies, University of Münster, Germany
Master of Arts in philosophy, biology (minor), and educational science (minor); interdisciplinary Master thesis on “Pluralistic Approaches in the Units of Selection Debate”; final grade: 1,05
10/2001 – 07/2007
Teaching profession, University of Münster, Germany
State examination in philosophy and biology (certification as secondary teacher); final grade: 1,2/1,0
Other Academic Activities
since 08/2024
Co-chair of the EPSA25 conference
since 04/2024
Member of the Managing Board of the Joint Institute for Individualisation in a Changing Environment (JICE), Universities of Münster & Bielefeld
since 10/2023
Director (non-managing) of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld
since 10/2023
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the mentoring program „movement“, Bielefeld University
since 11/2021
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Graduate School RTG “Constructing Explainability”, University of Paderborn, Germany
10/2016 – 10/2023
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Center for Science and Society, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
05/2018 – 04/2022
Gender equality representative of the TRR-SFB 212, Bielefeld University, Germany
09/2015 – 08/2018
Co-investigator of the research project “From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics”, Templeton Foundation, University of Calgary, Canada
09/2012 – 08/2014
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal dialectica, University of Geneva, Switzerland
10/2011 – 09/2015
Founding member of the DFG-network “Philosophy of the Life Sciences in Germany”
01/2008 – 08/2010
Member of the Management of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Münster, Germany
01/2007 – 01/2008
Member of the Managing Board of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Münster, Germany