I work in philosophy with a primary focus on philosophy of mind, science, and perception, especially where they intersect with epistemology, metaphysics, empirical mind sciences, engineering, or medicine. My most prominent articles concern phenomenal structuralism, neural correlates of consciousness, ego-dissolution, introspection, pain, and psychedelics.

Currently, I work as a Researcher at the CONCEPT Centre at the University of Cologne, co-affiliated at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow and the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences at Magdeburg. Before, I was Director of Research at the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research {PAIR} (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) and Juniorprofessor for Neurophilosophy at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. I regularly teach at Hochschule Kaiserslautern on philosophical aspects of design.

I serve as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the independent, cost-free, diamond open-access journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) since its foundation in 2019. PhiMiSci has been funded by the DFG and recently achieved an impact factor of 0.77/h=15, comparable to established journals like „Philosophy of Science“.

I am generally interested in philosophical outreach and have collaborated with the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, the Forum Gestaltung, the Gruson Gewächshäuser at Magdeburg, and Susanne Zaun with her zaungäste ensemble in some of her works for Moussonturm Frankfurt and Schlosstheater Moers, among others. I also produced several interviews with German analytic philosophers for the Youtube channel of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy.

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) (2024–2027);
  • EU ERANET NEURON-funded project PSYTRANS (on psychedelic transformations, 2024–2027);
  • EU ERANET NEURON COMPAIN (on complex pain ontologies, 2024–2027);
  • DFG-Project “Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci). Konsolidierung einer wissenschaftlichen Open-Access-Zeitschrift” (2023–2026).
  • BMBF/DLR-funded project „PsychedELSI: Ethische, legale und soziale Implikationen der Neuropsychopharmakologie in der Psychotherapie – Vorbereitung auf die psychedelische Renaissance“ (2023–2026);
  • Previously, I was a PI in the DFG-funded research training group Extrospection: External Access to Higher Cognitive Processes (2019–2023).

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