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Personal Data	Year of birth:	1979
	Place of birth:	Bergisch-Gladbach (Germany)
	Nationality:	German
	Marital status:	Married
Current function	Senior lecturer (MER) in epistemology and history of science
Education
	1990 – 1999	Secondary school at Lessing-Gymnasium in Cologne
	June 1999	High school graduation (Abitur) at Lessing-Gymnasium in Cologne
	Aug. 1999 – July 2000	Civilian service at St Martin's Geriatric Care Centre in Cologne
	Oct. 2000 – Nov. 2004	Study of philosophy and biology at the University of Cologne. Junior assistant in philosophy at the University of Cologne (March 2002 – February 2003). Master (Staatsexamen) in philosophy and biology at the University of Cologne. Master Thesis in philosophy on: “Reduktionismus in der Wissenschaftstheorie unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Philosophie der Biologie”.
	Dec. 2004 – Feb. 2007	Assistant FNS (60%) (Swiss National Science Foundation) at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), dissertation thesis on: “Reductionism in the philosophy of science”.
	Sept. 2005 – Feb. 2007	Assistant (40%) at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland), substitute for Bruno Strasser MER.
	Feb. 2006 – May 2006	Visiting Scholar at Brown University, Providence, United States of America, with prof. Jaegwon Kim.
	February 2007	Defense of the doctor thesis « Reductionism in the philosophy of science », supervisor: Prof. Michael Esfeld (Lausanne), jury: Prof. Pascal Engel (Geneva) and Prof. Marcel Weber (Basel).
	March 2007 – Aug. 2007	MER (suppléant) in epistemology and history of science.
	June 2007	Award of the Société Académique Vaudoise (SAV) for the dissertation thesis.
	Since Sept. 2007	MER (type 1) in epistemology and history of science.
Languages	Modern:	German, French, English (written and spoken)
	Ancient:	Latin (Latinum)
Miscellaneous	Referee activity:	Abstracta, Dialectica, Erkenntnis, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Lato Sensu, Mind and Matter, Philosophia Naturalis, Philosophical Papers, Philosophical Psychology, REPHA, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Theoria
	Administration committee:	Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS)
	Member:	European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP), lgBIG - lake geneva Biological Interest Group, Netzwerk Philosophie der Lebenswissenschaften, Société Académique Vaudoise (SAV), Société de philosophie des sciences (SPS)