Academic Positions

(2025 – 2026) Hans Przibram Postdoctoral Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Klosterneuburg, Austria
Project: Extending the Synthesis: e pluribus unum? – An investigation of the scientific controversy over the structure and content of evolutionary theory, in particular into the argumentative structure of various proposals for reform that have been put forward since the 1970s.

(2023 – 2025) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI), Klosterneuburg, Austria
Project: The Origins of Evolution – Philosophical investigation of the applicability of evolutionary theory to research into the Origins of Life.

Education

(19.09.2023) PhD Synthetic Biology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Dissertation: Functionalizing Synthetic Cells: Membranes and Condensates – A project aimed at in vitro membrane protein biogenesis in phospholipid vesicles and in vitro transcription-translation in biomolecular condensates, including philosophical reflection on the nature of synthetic biology.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. W.T.S. Huck

(31.08.2018) MA Analytic Philosophy (cum laude) at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a focus on philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.

(31.08.2018) MSc Biomolecular Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a focus on synthetic biology.

(29.08.2016) BA Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a focus on analytic philosophy, especially epistemology.

(30.07.2016) BSc Biomedical Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with a focus on molecular cell biology.