I am currently a postdoc in Humane AI at Leiden University in the Netherlands. From September 2020 I was a Radboud Excellence Initiative Fellow at the Institute for Science in Society, Faculty of Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen. From 2016 to 2018 I held the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Sorbonne in Paris.
In the last couple of years, I have been working on a comprehensive account of topological explanations, especially in neuroscience. The topological explanations appeal to topological properties (mathematically quantifiable connectivity patterns) of networks built from functional magnetic res…
I am currently a postdoc in Humane AI at Leiden University in the Netherlands. From September 2020 I was a Radboud Excellence Initiative Fellow at the Institute for Science in Society, Faculty of Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen. From 2016 to 2018 I held the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of Sorbonne in Paris.
In the last couple of years, I have been working on a comprehensive account of topological explanations, especially in neuroscience. The topological explanations appeal to topological properties (mathematically quantifiable connectivity patterns) of networks built from functional magnetic resonance imaging data of the brain or predator-prey relationships in ecological networks.
I co-edited (with Claus Hilgetag and Marc Tittgemeyer) a theme issue in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, on the topic of “Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks”.
I am also a co-founder (with Kareem Khalifa) of the annual workshop series "Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe)".
I received my PhD degree in philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin. I was a visiting PhD student at King's College London where I worked with Professor David Papineau who was also one of my PhD examiners.