Academic Positions

(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.