About Me
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Current Position at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin I am the head of the Arts and Minds Lab at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. The Lab unifies research from different grants and projects. Starting this summer, I will also be a professor for philosophy of mind and aesthetics at the Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on a temporary basis.
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.
Current Position at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin
At Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, I have been the head of the Research Group Neurourbanism since 2018 (together with Mazda Adli).
Previous Positions
I have been the Deputy Professor for Philosophy of Mind at LMU Munich. I worked as a senior postdoctoral researcher at HU Berlin in an Einstein Research Group on “Consciousness, Emotions, Values.” / I held a position as Akademischer Rat at the philosophy department at the University of Stuttgart. / My first Postdoc after my PhD was Art and Neuroscience Fellow at the Italian Academy for the Advanced Studies, Columbia University, New York / I was a full-time researcher in a project on Functions of Consciousness at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities. / I was visiting researcher at the CUNY graduate Center and at Yale. I did my doctorate as a researcher n 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. and founding member and on the board of the Interdisciplinary Forum for Neurourbanism (IFNU) e.V.