About Me

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, I am a guest professor for philosophy of mind at the Department of Philosophy. I am also the head of the Arts and Minds Lab at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. The lab integrates research from different grants and projects.

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Since 2018 I have been the head of the Research Group Neurourbanism alongside Prof. Dr. med. Mazda Adli.

Previous Positions…

I have held several academic positions, among them:

Deputy Professor for Philosophy of Mind at LMU Munich.
senior postdoctoral researcher at HU Berlin in an Einstein Research Group on “Consciousness, Emotions, Values.”
Akademischer Rat at the philosophy department at the University of Stuttgart.
Art and Neuroscience Fellow at the Italian Academy for the Advanced Studies, Columbia University, New York.
Full-time researcher in a project on Functions of Consciousness at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities.
Visiting researcher at the CUNY graduate Center, New York, and at Yale University, New Haven.
PhD-Candidate at the Collegium for Advanced Studies for Picture Act and Embodiment at HU Berlin.

Education

I defended my PhD in Philosophy (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) in 2013 with a thesis on The Bodily Basis of the Mind. I received my M.A. in Philosophy (Major, HU) with a thesis on The Non-Conceptual Content of Perception; with a second Major in Comparative Literature on The Analytic of Beauty in Kant’s Third Critique.

Non-Academic Positions

I am the scientific director of the Association of Neuroaesthetics (AoN) e.V.
Founding member and on the board of the Interdisciplinary Forum for Neurourbanism (IFNU) e.V.

Current Third Party Funding

For the Berlin University Alliance grant on “Exploring and Designing Density. Neurourbanism as Novel Approach in Global Mental Health,” we established the Research Platform Neurourbanism (RPN), for which I am the scientific director at HU. I am also the Principal Investigator at HU and scientific co-coordinator of the international EU-funded project Art and Research on Transformations of Individuals and Societies (ART*IS). This is a consortium project of nine partners with the University of Vienna being the consortium leader.