After studies in philosophy, history, and political science at the University of Göttingen and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), I obtained my PhD in 2007 from Marburg University. Before joining ICREA in 2014, I held positions at Marburg (1995-2000); UCSD (2000), the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities (2001-2005), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2005-2009), and the Dept. of Philosophy, UAB (Ramón y Cajal Scholar, 2009-2014). I am also a member of the IHC (UAB), the LOGOS group (UB), the Kant-edition at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences & Humanities, and Research Collaborator of the Barcelona Institute for Analytic Philosophy (BIAP). From 2019-2021, I was Head of the Kantian Rationality Lab at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad. In 2019, I became elected member of the Academia Europea.

How is rationality understood in philosophy and the human sciences? How should it be understood? What is its function in various domains? These are the guiding questions for my research, which comprises topics reaching from early modern philosophy - esp. Immanuel Kant's philosophy - up to current discussions at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences. I study aspects of reason in Kant's philosophy, especially in relation to the sciences; I discuss psychological and philosophical theories of rationality and reasoning, past and present; and I study the potentials of such theories in politics and education. I am moreover interested in the philosophy of knowledge, mind, and science, and in EU science policy. Methodologically, I combine tools of analytic philosophy, history of philosohy, and history of science: I am unconvinced by widespread opinions according to which they cannot, or should not, be integrated.