My areas of specialization include general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics, epistemology, 19th- and 20th-century history of philosophy, and phenomenology. My current research focuses on conceptual change in the physical sciences, especially in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Questions concerning measurement, probability, and objectivity look different once one takes seriously the role of agency, the structure of experimental intervention, and the evidential fragility of modern theoretical work. This is reflected in contemporary reconstruction programmes, which derive the quantum formalism from informational or operational principles, and in practice-oriented approaches that examine how physicists actually model, idealise, and reason under conditions of sparse or indirect empirical support. Phenomenology enters here not as a rigid doctrine but as a set of analytic resources: it helps illuminate how scientific understanding is formed, how subjectivity and agency shape inquiry, and how conceptual frameworks evolve when physical theories press against the limits of ordinary categories.
While my methodological orientation is broadly phenomenological, I am not committed to any single meta-philosophical framework. Science is a multifaceted phenomenon, and its analysis requires equally diverse methods. What I consider essential, however, is the recognition that any serious understanding of science must be grounded in a careful exploration of the structures of human subjectivity and the dynamics of scientific practice.
International Experience / Research Projects
Before assuming my position as Professor of Philosophy of Science at Linköping University in 2019, I served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz (2013–2019), Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at Stanford University (2017), and Erwin Schrödinger Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (2010–2013). I earned my PhD from the University of Graz in 2008 and have been a recurring Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2020–2023).
In 2026, I will return to Stanford University as Visiting Professor, where I will teach and pursue work on the philosophical foundations of physics.
I am currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenology of Science, scheduled for publication in 2026.
Teaching
My teaching experience encompasses a wide variety of courses and topics, ranging from large introductory lectures with over 300 students to upper-level writing courses, undergraduate classes, and interdisciplinary research seminars. Most of my courses focus on philosophy of science, epistemology, and phenomenology, although I have also taught courses on applied ethics. From 2013 to 2019, I served as a permanent lecturer at the Center for History of Science at the University of Graz, Austria.
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