Research interests

I am an interdisciplinary philosopher working on consciousness, representation, and AI. After studying Psychology, Philosophy and Neuroscience, I wrote my dissertation at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the University of Magdeburg, working with Holger Lyre and John-Dylan Haynes.

I am currently working as a Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellow (Humboldt Foundation) at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague with Tomáš Marvan.

My main area of research is structuralism as a methodology for the mind sciences. The basic idea is to explain representational relations and consciousness-brains relation via structural similarities. This provides new methods for formalization and empirical research.

Structuralism as a framework enables fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration. In my dissertation, I have extensively studied the limits and prospects of the structuralist approach in the study of consciousness, as well as in understanding mental representations. 

Building on my previous work, I now address the issue of AI consciousness. I also collaborate with scientists to conduct empirical studies on color perception.