INSTITUT FÜR PHILOSOPHIE

Curriculum vitae

Education

1997

Abitur: Wernher-von-Braun-Gymnasium Friedberg (Bay.)

1998-2000

Undergraduate Student: Universität Freiburg

2000-2001

Undergraduate Student: Universität Bonn

2001-2003

Undergraduate Student: Universität Freiburg

2003

Magister Artium, Philosophy, Thesis: Johnson-Laird's Theory of Mental Models

2004-2007

Graduate Student: Universität Tübingen

2007

Graduate Student: Ruhr-Universität Bochum

2007

Doktor phil., Thesis: Mental Representation and Self-Consciousness in Humans

Employment

1999-2000

Research Assistant, Universität Freiburg

2000-2001

Teaching Assistant (Logic), Universität Bonn

2001-2002

Research Assistant, Universität Freiburg

Nov./Dec. 2003

Collaborator, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen

Jan.-Mar. 2004

Research Assistant, Universität Tübingen

Apr. 2004 - Mar. 2007

Collaborator, Research Project Self-Consciousness, Universität Tübingen

Jan.-Jun. 2005

Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy at New York University

May-Jun. 2006

Visiting Scholar at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris

Apr.-Jun. 2007

Collaborator, Research Project Self-Consciousness, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

2007-2009

Post-Doc, Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Grants, Scholarships, Awards

2003

Grant for the International Workshop Mental Models and the Mind by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung (together with Dr. Carsten Held and Dr. Markus Knauff)

2005

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD): Fellowship for a six month research project at New York University

2005-2007

Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes: Scholarship for Doctorating

Jun. 2006

Award for Best Philosophy Poster at the Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) X, Oxford, England, "Having a point of view: On the notion of perspective"

2007-2009

Research Grant by the VolkswagenStiftung for the Research Project "Finding Culturally (In)Dependent Levels of Self-Representation: The Case of Emotions" (together with Dr. Tobias Schlicht, Dr. Anne Spriner, Dr. Kirsten Volz)

2007-2010

Research Grant by the VolkswagenStiftung for the Research Project "Are Thoughts Motor Processes?" (together with Dr. Matthis Synofzik)

2008

UAMR (Universitätsallianz Metropole Ruhr) Grant (together with Prof. Dr. A. Newen and R. van Riel) for establishing an on-line logic course

2008

Dissertation Award of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum

2008

Elected one of the 11 best dissertations (out of 444) by the jury of the Deutscher Studienpreis (Körber-Stiftung)

2009

Appointed member of the Junges Kolleg der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste

2009

Dissertation Award of the Förderverein des Kulturwissenschaftlichen Instituts Essen

2010-2014

Research Grant by the VolkswagenStiftung for the Project "Who is thinking? Authorship and Control of Thoughts" (together with Dr. Martin Voss, Psychiatry, and Dr. Daniela Simon, Psychology)

2010-2014

Research Grant by the VolkswagenStiftung for the Project "Grounding thoughts in actions: Interdependencies between Thoughts and Motor Control (ThinkAct)" (together with Dr. Matthis Synofzik, Neuology, and Dr. Simone Schütz-Bosbach, Psychology)

2010-2012

Research Grant by SFF (Heinrich-Heine Universität) for the Project "Grounding cognition: causal indexicals and affordances in frames"

2010

DGPPN-Prize for Philosophy in Psychiatry, together with Dr. med. Martin Voss.

2011-2015

Two Projects within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 991 "The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science", Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich-Heine-Universität:

  • A03 "Grounded Cognition: Causal Indexicals and Affordances in Frames"
  • B06 "Frames in Psychiatric Classification" (together with PD Dr. Jürgen Zielasek, Psychiatry)

2011-2013

Research Grant by SFF (Heinrich-Heine-Universität) for the Project "Meaning, Cooperation, and Truth"