Sven received his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 1999. After a postdoc at UNAM, he worked at FU Berlin, receiving his senior doctorate (habilitation) in 2004. From 2005 until 2008 he was a DFG Heisenberg Fellow. Sven joined ICREA in 2008. He coordinated the ITNs PETAF (EC-GA-238128, 2010-13) and Diaphora (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415, 2016-19) and served on the EC of the Consolider-Ingenio PERSP (CSD2009-00056, 2010-15). He was PI of the I+D projects Fallibility, Rational Belief and Knowledge (2014-16), Justification, its Structure and Grounds (2019-22), Methods: Epistemology Beyond Belief (2022-25) and is currently PI of the project Method-Centred Epistemology (2025-28). Since 2014 he coordinates the consolidated research group LOGOS. In 2018 he was elected member of the Academia Europaea. He is one of the investigadores garantes and work package leader for the María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence grant awarded to the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (CEX2021-001169-M)

Sven's main research interests lie in metaphysics and epistemology. He is particularly interested in the philosophy of time and existence and the theory of knowledge and epistemic justification. Recently, Sven published a co-authored monograph on tensed theories of time with Springer. His latest book, Justification as Ignorance, concerns the nature and logic of epistemic justification and was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He is currently working on a theory of epistemic methods.