I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at Umeå Universitet, funded by the Kempe Foundation. In 2024, I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield.

I have a general research interest in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, and the philosophy of psychiatry. In particular, I am interested in a number of philosophical questions surrounding low mood and depression, including questions regarding the evolution of the low mood system, the intentional content of low mood, and depression's status as a mood disorder. I also work in the philosophy of AI, where I take a functional approach to understanding whether AI systems could have states …

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