I am a philosopher specialized in the field of emotions and negative affect with a particular focus on the implications for majority-minority relations. I am currently a research associate at the University of Virginia, working remotely on project on moral injury, and a teaching associate professor in Minority Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Across a range of different domains and social contexts, I have explored a series of related research questions to interrogate the social, moral, and political significance of aversive gut feelings like disgust and discomfort. My work on these questions proceeds from the perspective of practical phi…
I am a philosopher specialized in the field of emotions and negative affect with a particular focus on the implications for majority-minority relations. I am currently a research associate at the University of Virginia, working remotely on project on moral injury, and a teaching associate professor in Minority Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Across a range of different domains and social contexts, I have explored a series of related research questions to interrogate the social, moral, and political significance of aversive gut feelings like disgust and discomfort. My work on these questions proceeds from the perspective of practical philosophy, infused with the latest developments in the affective and social sciences. It presents an applied form of emotion theory that is rooted in and substantiates its normative and conceptual claims with empirical evidence
From my previous focus on of disgust, I am now looking into the relationship between (implicit) biases, aversive affect (discomfort, stress, anxieties), and the physiological and biological detrimental effects of discrimination.
I did my PhD in philosophy and minority studies at University of Copenhagen. Since then I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination (CEPDISC), Aarhus University and a Carlsberg postdoctoral fellow at the Section for Philosophy and Science Studies, Roskilde University with the project "Unconscious bias: Don't Trust Your Gut Feeling". During these years, I have also been a visiting fellow at the philosophy departments at University of Sheffield, MIT and University of Chicago.
