About me

I’m a Post-Doc researcher and lecturer at the Philosophy Department of the University of Graz, Austria.

I received my PhD at the University of Graz in June 2019 and I have a Bachelor’s degree in physics. I’m the president of the Austrian Society for Phenomenology, the book review editor of Husserl Studies, a former visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the author of The Justificatory Force of Experiences (Springer, 2022), a co-author of Gauge Symmetries, Symmetry Breaking, and Gauge-Invariant Approaches (CUP, 2023), and the co-editor of Phenomenological Approaches to Physics (Springer, 2020) and Phenomenology and QBism (Routledge, 2023). I was the principal investigator of the research project: “Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenology: Specifying the Philosophical Foundations of QBism” (granted by the Styrian Research Council) and I’m currently the principal investigator of the research project “The Ontology and Future of Gauge Theories” (granted by the Austrian Science Funds (FWF).

I’m a philosopher working in epistemology, philosophy of physics, and phenomenology. In epistemology, I’m mainly interested in the structure and nature of epistemic justification. I believe that experiences, understood in a broad sense, are a source of immediate justification as well as our ultimate justifiers such that every piece of knowledge can be traced back to epistemically foundational experiences. I argue that the justificatory force of experiences is determined by their phenomenology. In philosophy of physics, I mainly focus on experience-centered interpretations of quantum mechanics, the program of reconstructing quantum mechanics based on operationally meaningful principles, and the ontological status and methodological function of gauge symmetries. With regard to the latter, I’m working on gauge-invariant approaches to (particle) physics.

Also, you may have heard that I’m the biggest Star Wars fan in the galaxy. It’s true.