Sven received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1999. After a research fellowship at UNAM, he worked at FU Berlin where he was awarded his senior doctorate (habilitation) in 2004. From 2005 until 2008 he received a DFG Heisenberg Fellowship. Sven joined ICREA in 2008. From 2010 until 2013 he coordinated the FP7 ITN PETAF (EC-GA 238128), from 2010 until 2015 served on the executive committee of the Consolider-Ingenio PERSP (CSD2009-00056), and from 2016 until 2019 coordinated the H2020 ETN Diaphora (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415). He was PI of the project Fallibility, Rational Belief and Knowledge (FFI2013-45968-P, 2014-2016). Since 2014 he is coordinator of the consolidated research group LOGOS (2017-SGR-63), and from 2019 until 2021 serves as PI of the research project Justification, its Structure and Grounds (PGC2018-099889-B-I00). In 2018 he was elected member of the Academia Europaea.

Research interests

Sven's main research interests lie in metaphysics and epistemology. He is particularly interested in realism, objectivity, fallibility, the logic of justification, the limits of thought and knowledge (if any), and the philosophy of time and existence. Recently, Sven published a co-authored monograph on tensed theories of time with Springer. His latest book, titled Justification as Ignorance, concerns the nature and logic of epistemic justification and is scheduled to appear with Oxford University Press in March 2021.