I am a philosopher and intellectual historian working on ethics, moral psychology, and the history of philosophy, with particular interests in medieval philosophy and the transmission of Aristotelian thought. My research examines how human beings acquire the knowledge and judgement necessary for ethical action, how philosophical traditions develop across cultures and institutions, and how concepts such as virtue, prudence, experience, and human flourishing have been understood historically. I was a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Previously, I was a Lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, and the 2020 Lorenz Bausch Fellow at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. I completed my dissertation in Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich in 2021.

My primary research concerns medieval ethics and the Aristotelian tradition, especially the philosophy of Albert the Great. My work asks how medieval thinkers understood the formation of moral character, the development of practical judgement, and the relationship between philosophical knowledge and the lived experience of becoming good. I am particularly interested in the reception of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and in the ways Greek, Arabic, and Latin philosophical traditions shaped medieval accounts of virtue, prudence, happiness, and moral agency.

A central theme running through my work is the relationship between knowledge and action. I investigate what kinds of knowledge are required to act well, how judgement is formed through experience, and how philosophical theories of ethics respond to situations in which universal principles must be applied to particular circumstances. This has led me to work on concepts including prudence, moral experience, observation, and the correction of judgement across medieval and early modern philosophy.

My research also extends into early modern intellectual history and the history of natural philosophy. Here I examine how practices of observation and experience developed within changing philosophical and institutional contexts, particularly in natural history, medicine, and the study of living beings. Rather than treating the history of philosophy and the history of science as separate fields, I am interested in the ways ethical, epistemological, and natural-philosophical questions intersected in premodern intellectual traditions.

Alongside my research, I have taught widely in the history of philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and the history of scientific thought. My teaching and research share a common concern with how philosophical texts can illuminate enduring questions about what it means to live well, exercise judgement, understand the natural world, and become fully human.

I have also been active in academic leadership and research policy. From 2023 to 2024, I served as the elected Spokesperson of the Max Planck Society PostdocNet, representing more than 3,000 postdoctoral researchers across the Society. In this role, I worked with institutional leaders, policymakers, and researchers on questions of academic careers, mentorship, and research culture. My reflections on this experience were subsequently published in Nature Careers.
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More broadly, my work seeks to bring historical philosophy into conversation with contemporary questions. I am particularly interested in what premodern philosophical traditions can contribute to present discussions of ethics, responsible judgement, human flourishing, scientific responsibility, and the relationship between knowledge and society.