Biography

Academic Positions

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Since 2022

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science
Coordination of the Research Master Philosophy of Neuroscience

VU Amsterdam

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2020-2022

Postdoctoral Researcher and Scientific Coordinator: Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ founded by the German Research Foundation
RU Bochum

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2019-2020

Postdoctoral Researcher: Chair for Philosophy of Mind
Managing Director and Student Consultant: Master Cognitive Science
Scientific Coordination: Center for Mind and Cognition
RU Bochum

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2019

Postdoctoral Researcher: The Structure and Development of Understanding Actions and Reasons founded by the German Research Foundation, the Swiss National Fund and the Austrian Science Fund
RUBochum, University Zurich & University Salzburg

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2012 - 2014

Student Research Assistent: Chair for Philosophy of Nature and Sciences
University of Bonn

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2010 - 2011

Student Research Assistent: German Reference Center for Ethic in the Life Sciences
University of Bonn

Education

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2019

PhD in Philosophy (summa cum laude)
Title: Experiencing Pain – A Scientific Enigma & Its Philosophical Solution
Supervision: Prof. Albert Newen & Prof. Colin Klein
RU Bochum

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2015

Master of Arts in Philosophy
Specialization: Philosophy of Mind, Nature, & Religion
University of Bonn

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2011

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy/Psychology
University of Bonn

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2008

Abitur (equivalent to A level)

Research Stays

March 2022
University of Aarhus
Prof. Somogy Varga

July 2021
University of Zurich
Prof. Kevin Reuter

NovemberDecember 2019
Institut Jean Nicod (Paris)
Prof. Frédérique de Vignemont

April – May 2018
Australian National University (Canberra)
Prof. Colin Klein

September – December 2016
University of Memphis
Prof. Shaun Gallagher

Funding

Knowledge Transfer

2024

Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation

‘From Pain Theory to Practice: A Community-Initiated Knowledge Translation Project’

PI: Peter Stilwell and Sabrina Coninx

 

RTG 'Situated Cognition'

2021

Contribution as scientific coordinator on the postdoctoral level to the renewal proposal of the Research Training Group ‘Situated Cognition’ (founded by the German Research Foundation):

(i) contribution to the research and qualification program;
(ii) acquisition of my own postdoctoral project;
(iii) acquisition of a doctoral project.

Workshop Funding

2024

CLUE+ and E.W. Beth Grant from the Koninlijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenshappen

Workshop ‘Technological Niche Disruption’ (VU Amsterdam)

2023

Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Workshop ‘From Pain to Suffering: Determining the Driving Factors of Burden and Disability in Chronic Pain’ (Charité University Clinics Berlin)

CLUE+

Workshop ‘Experiences of Loss: An Interdisciplinary Exploration’

2018

PR.INT Grant of the Research School Plus (RU Bochum)

Workshop: Investigating the Mind – Pain, Emotion & Affective Disorders

2017

PR.INT Grant of the Research School Plus (RU Bochum)

Spring School: Social Cognition, Emotion & Joint Action

Travel Grants

2019-2021

Global Young Faculty (Mercator Research Center Ruhr)

Funded Projects: Research Stays & Conference Participations

2016-2017

International Realization Budget of the Research School Plus (RU Bochum)

Funded Projects: Research Stays & Conference Participations

Invitation of Guest Researchers

2021

Visiting International Professor Grant from the Research School (RU Bochum)

Visiting researcher: Prof. Somogy Varga

2017-2018

Visiting International Professor Grant of the Research School Plus (RU Bochum)

Visiting Researcher: Prof. Colin Klein

Scholarships

October 2018 – January 2019
Doctoral Scholarship: Esser Stiftung

October 2016 – September 2019
Doctoral Sholarship: Barbara-Wengeler Stiftung

October 2010 – August 2014
Study Support: Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung

October 2009 – September 2010
NRW-Scholarship-Program

Awards

gdf-Award Wilhelm Hollenberg 2020/2021
Awarded for an outstanding doctoral thesis in humanities (RU Bochum)

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