research project on Situated Cognition.

Since 2010, I have been working as Junior-Professor of Philosophy
with a focus on Consciousness and Cognition at Ruhr-Universität

Bochum, also leading a Junior Research Group which I started

at my earlier position at the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience

(CIN) in Tübingen (2009-2010).

I studied at the University in Köln, where I received my PhD
in 2005, and I spent an academic year at University
College London (1997/8).

Education

2005 PhD in Philosophy (Universität zu Köln)

2001 M.A. in Philosophy, German Literature & Language, Modern History (Universität zu Köln)

Employment

since 3/2014:
Lichtenberg-Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum

9/2010 - 2/2014:
Professor of Philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
Junior Group Leader of the NRW-funded Project Intentionality, Self-consciousness and Social Interaction

5/2009 - 8/2010:
Research Group Leader Philosophy of Neuroscience, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of Tübingen

4/2006 - 04/2009:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research project Self-consciousness and concept formation in humans at the Institutes of Philosophy in Bochum and Tübingen

9/1999 - 9/2005: Research associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Köln (Prof. K. Düsing) 

Grants and Scholarships

2014 - 2019: Research Project „Situated Cognition“ as part of a Lichtenberg-professorship, funded by VolkswagenStiftung and Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1.100.000 €)

2010 - 2015: NRW Junior Research Group on „Intentionality, Self-consciousness and Social Interaction“ (538.900 €)

2010 - 2013: Being addressed as You: Conceptual and empirical investigations of a second-person approach to other minds, interdisciplinary research project with Leonhard Schilbach (Cologne), Bert Timmermans (Bruxelles), and Nikolaus Steinbeis (Zürich), funded by VolkswagenStiftung (320.000 €)

2007 - 2009: Finding culturally (in)variant levels of self-representation: the case of emotions, interdisciplinary research project funded by VolkswagenStiftung (40.000 €)

2007 - 2008: Intentionality, Self-consciousness, and social interaction, Elite program for Postdoctoral Fellows by Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg (73.000 €)

1999: M.A. Grant by the Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds

1997-98: ERASMUS–Scholarship (European Union), University College London (UK)

Academic Awards
9/2008: Best Paper Award 2008 (Ein Stufenmodell der Intentionalität) at the 9th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft

4/2006: Award for Best Philosophy Poster (Me-ishness. A Kantian explanation of subjective character) at the 10th Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in Oxford

4/2004: Award for Best Poster Presentation (Physicalism, Dualism, and a Kantian Alternative) at the 6th Conference Towards a Science of Consciousness IV in Tucson, Arizona

4/2002: Best Student Paper Award Nominee (Problems of John Searle's Biological Naturalism)

at the 5th Conference Towards a Science of Consciousness V in Tucson, Arizona