I currently work as Director of Research at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR} (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). I am an Affiliate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and an external member of the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences at Magdeburg, where I was Juniorprofessor for Neurophilosophy between 2016 and 2024. My full CV (with a list of publications, teaching, and third-party funding) is here.

My publications are mainly in philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of perception, and philosophy of science (see my Google Scholar page here; most of my work can be found online as open access).

I am currently involved in the following research projects:

  • DFG/AHRC-funded project SENSOR “Sensory Engineering: Investigating Altered and Guided Perception and Hallucination” (with the Center for the Study of Perceptual Experiences at the University of Glasgow);
  • BMBF/DLR-funded project „PsychedELSI: Ethische, legale und soziale Implikationen der Neuropsychopharmakologie in der Psychotherapie – Vorbereitung auf die psychedelische Renaissance“;
  • EU ERANET NEURON-funded project PSYTRANS (on psychedelic transformation);
  • EU ERANET NEURON COMPAIN (on complex pain ontologies);
  • DFG-Project “Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci). Konsolidierung einer wissenschaftlichen Open-Access-Zeitschrift”.
  • Previously, I was a PI in the DFG-funded research training group Extrospection: External Access to Higher Cognitive Processes (2019–2023).

I also serve as Editor-in-Chief of the independent, cost-free, diamond open-access journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences since 2019. There, I edited a special issue on the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (Vol 1 and 2 with Ying-Tung Lin), two book symposia (on Letheby’s „Philosophy of Psychedelics“ with Chiara Caporuscio and on Stokes‘ „Thinking and Perceiving“ with Regina Fabry).

To increase the reach of academic philosophy, I have produced several interviews with German analytic philosophers for the Youtube channel of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).