Positions and Education 

I am Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cologne. I am also an external member of the Emmy Noether Research Group From Perception To Belief and Back Again at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Before coming to Cologne, I spent time at Universities in Leuven, Berkeley, Konstanz, Munich, Duisburg-Essen, Salzburg, and Boston. I completed my Ph.D. studies (Philosophy) at the University of Konstanz in 2016, and some years ago I finished my MA studies (Philosophy) at the University of Salzburg.

Research Topics

My past, current, and future research focus on debates in epistemology, general philosophy of science, and metaphilosophy. In epistemology, my research encompasses epistemic disagreement, epistemic pluralism, epistemic normativity, theories of justification, of evidential support and higher-order evidence, and the relationship between logic and reasoning. In the philosophy of science, my research centers on the aims of inquiry, the relationship between confirmation and rationality, and the relationship between explanation and understanding. In metaphilosophy, I am mainly interested in methods of conceptual clarification and conceptual engineering, and on the role of formal methods and idealizations in philosophy.

Besides epistemology, the philosophy of science, and metaphilosophy, I have some interests in the history of analytic philosophy, decision theory, metaethics, philosophical logic, and philosophy of logic.

You can find some of my papers here and there.

News

Talk in Erlangen (06/’19)	I am giving a talk at the research seminar of the Department of Philosophy at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The research seminar is  led by G. Ernst, B. Lienemann, and E. Mayr. I am looking forward to meeting the philosophers in Erlangen for the first time.
Talk in Edinburgh (06/’19)	I am pleased to be invited to give a talk at a workshop on closure and transmission at the Unversity of Edinburgh. Love the topic!
Workshop in Cologne (07/’19)	I am organizing the workshop Epistemic Conflicts. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together epistemologists who work on epistemic conflicts or topics that are relevant for discussions about epistemic conflicts.
Talk in Paris (05/’19)	I am excited about being invited to present my paper Aggregation and Respect for Evidence at the Decision, Rationality, and Interaction (DRI) Seminar of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) in Paris, France.
Special Issue	Great news! I. Lawler, R. v. Riel, and I completed the SI on Philosophical Methods (Synthese)! We received super interesting contributions. Our introduction to the SI summarises the results of the contributors: M. Balaguer, G. Brun, M. Cordes, C. Dutilh Novaes, M. Egler, and L. Ross, S. Elgin, E. Kitsik, M. Kusch and R. McKenna, S. Lutz, M. Pinder, D. Sgaravatti, and A. Steinberg.
MCMP Summer School for Female Students	I have been invited to be one of the lecturers at the next Summer School on Mathematical Philosophy for Female Students, which is taking place at the MCMP in Munich in July/August 2019.
Article in  Volume	P. Brössel and I have a paper in the OUP volume Higher-Order Evidence: New Essays. (Editors: M. Skipper and A. Steglich-Petersen.) Its title is „Evidence of Evidence as Higher-Order Evidence“.
Article in Volume	I will contribute to the Routledge volume The Epistemology of Group Disagreement. (Editors: A. Carter and F. Broncano-Berrocal.)
Portrait	You can find a portrait of me on the SWIP Germany e.V. blog.