DEGREES
Mar 2011
PhD (Dr. sc.) in Philosphy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH, Zurich.
Thesis title: Wissenschaft und Realität – Versuch eines pragmatischen Empirismus Supervisors: Michael Hampe, ETH Zurich, Gerd Folkers, ETH Zurich, Peter Schulthess, University of Zurich, Roman Frigg, LSE London (no predicates are given for doctorates at the ETH; published with Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2012).
Feb 2003
Diploma (M.Sc. equivalent) in Biochemistry (major) and Philosophy (minor), University of Zurich.
Thesis title: In vitro Arginine Methylation of Recombinant Ewing Sarcoma (EWS) Protein (marked 6 out of 6; published in: Proteins 61 (1): 164-175, 2005.)
POSITIONS
Jan 2020 –
Managing Director of the Ethics Committee, University St. Gallen
Sep 2018 –
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University St. Gallen.
Jul 2019 – Dec 2020
Scientific Advisor for Technology and Innovation Policy, Swiss Science Council
Feb 2019 – Jul 2019
Visiting Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University St. Gallen.
Sep 2012 – Aug 2018
Senior researcher and lecturer, Department of Humanities, Social and Political Science, ETH Zurich.
Sep 2014 – Dec 2014
Visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (supported by the Branco Weiss Fellowship and the Center for Philosophy of Science).
Sep 2013 – Dec 2013
Postdoc at the Department of Philosophy, Università Roma Tre (host: Mauro Dorato; supported by the Branco Weiss Fellowship).
Apr 2012 – Jul 2013
Postdoc at the Institut für Philosophie, Leibniz Universität Hannover (host: Paul Hoyningen-Huene; supported by the Branco Weiss Fellowship).
Oct 2009 – Apr 2010
Visiting graduate student at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics (host: Roman Frigg; supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation).
Jan 2007 – Jun 2016
Associated researcher, Collegium Helveticum, Zurich.
Jan 2007 – Aug 2012
Research assistant, Chair of Philosophy, ETH Zurich.
Oct 2004 – Sep 2006
Graduate student, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Zurich.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2014
Visiting fellowship, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
2012 – 2017
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science
2009 – 2010
Fellowship for prospective researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation
2004 – 2006
Forschungskredit, University of Zurich
INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES
2017 – present
Regular presentation and science communication workshops for Yes and Science klg.
2014 – 2017
Initiator & organizer of Science and Philosophy, lecture series at ETH Zurich, including talks by Samuel Fletcher, Naomi Oreskes (video available here), Thomas Reydon, Michael Esfeld & Nicolas Gisin.
Jan 2017
Co-moderator (with Marcel Tanner) of We Scientists Shape Science, organized by the Swiss Academy Sciences, Bern, including over 200 scientists from all fields of science.
Nov 2015
Workshop on societal aspects of scientific research at the annual Symposium of the Branco Weiss Fellowship.
Oct 2015 – Dec 2017
Representative of academic staff in the department conference of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, ETH Zurich.
Apr 2015
Rapporteur at a retreat organized by the directorate of ETH including two thirds of the faculty of ETH.
Oct 2004 – Jul 2006
Research assistant, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich.
Oct 1999 – Jun 2001
Elected student representative in the assembly of the Faculty of Science, University of Zurich.
BOARD & REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
- Member of program committee for 27th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Baltimore, November 2021.
- Member of program committee for 5th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), University of Exeter, September 2017.
- Reviewer for Princeton University Press, Felix Meiner Verlag, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Metascience, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Axiomathes, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Philosophies, Nature – Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, The Branco Weiss Fellowship.
MEMBERSHIPS
European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (GWP), Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS), The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Alumni.