I’m a philosopher with core research interests in Early Modern Rationalism, Kant, and German Idealism. Where possible, I connect my historical research with contemporary discussions in metaphysics and epistemology.

Currently, I’m a Postdoc working on Kant’s Transcendental Dialectic in the project “Reasonable Ideas” at Humboldt University Berlin. Before, I was a Postdoc at the University of Zurich and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and Humboldt University Berlin.

My main project concerns Kant’s metaphysics of existence and modality. I develop a ‘Meinongian’ reading of Kant, according to which his theory of modality crucially relies on an ontology of non-existent objects.

Two of my papers have recently appeared: “Dreams and Paintings. Descartes, Dream Skepticism, and the Constitution of Mental States” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and “Possibility, Actuality, and Determinacy. Baumgarten’s Metaphysics of Contingent Existents” in History of Philosophy Quarterly. My other publications can be found here.

On July 6-7, I’ll give a talk about Kant’s Supreme Principle at a workshop in Berlin.

On July 15-16, I’ll give a talk about Kant’s Principle of Complete Determination at the conference “Kant’s Metaphysics of the Intelligible World” at Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main.