I am a doctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt and a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Goethe University Frankfurt. My doctoral project develops a critical theory of nature after Schelling, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Situated in the context of the ecological catastrophe, the project examines both the retreat from the concept of nature and the tendency to obscure or de-name ideology and relations of domination within contemporary critical theory.
I hold a BA in Sociology and Politics from the University of Münster and an MA in Political Theory from Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt. In 2016, I was a visiting graduate student in the Politics Department at The New School for Social Research, and in 2022 a visiting doctoral researcher at the School of Philosophy and Art History at the University of Essex.
From 2013 to 2018, my studies were funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. I subsequently received a doctoral scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2021–2025) and was a member of its Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg from 2015 to 2017. From 2019 to 2021, I served on the board of the Gesellschaft für psychoanalytische Sozialpsychologie. In 2025–2026, I am a fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover.
My research interests include Frankfurt School Critical Theory (especially Adorno, Horkheimer, and Sonnemann), social philosophy, philosophy of nature, German Idealism (particularly Schelling), and the intersections of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and sociology.
PhD project: Mutable Nature. Critical Theory of Nature after Schelling | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Martin Saar and Prof. Dr. Philip Hogh
MA thesis: "Brechen, abspiegeln, versteinern, verwandeln." Kritische Theorie psychoanalytischer Sprachkritik nach Ulrich Sonnemann | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Martin Seel and Prof. Dr. Martin Saar
BA thesis: Transnationales Recht und Radikale Demokratie. Claude Leforts Theorie des Politischen als Rahmen einer Kritik des transnationalen Investitionsschutzrechts | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Joachim Renn and Prof. Dr. Thomas Gutmann
Reviews of and reports on my work:
Heinze/Mettin (Eds.): "Denn das Wahre ist das Ganze nicht..." Beiträge zur Negativen Anthropologie Ulrich Sonnemanns (Neofelis 2021) is reviewed in: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger, 75(3), 2022, by Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik; Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie 28(54-55), 2022, by Mirko Stieber; Freie Assoziation 25(2), 2022, by Marcus Beisswanger; Philosophy Today, 46(4), 2023, by Thassilo Polcik.
Bruff/Heinze/Saar (Organizers): „Schelling and the Frankfurt School“, international workshop at the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt, 2025) has been reported on in: Kabiri. The Official Journal of the North American Schelling Society 5, 2026, by Alexander Legebeke.
Barth/Biemüller/Heinze/Stubenrauch (Organizers): „Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung. Soziologische, psychoanalytische und sozialphilosophische Beiträge zur Aktualisierung der Kritischen Theorie“, conference at the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt, 2025) has been reported on in: Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit (2024), by Konstantin Klur; Freie Assoziation 27(1), 2024, by Till Seidemann; Vierteljahrsschrift für wissenschaftliche Pädagogik 100(3), 2024, by Sophia Schorr and Johanna Weckenmann.
Blättler/Gekle/Genel/Hechler/Heinze/Reiners/Roudaut (Organizers): "Nature and Progress", Summer School at the Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin, 2022) has been reported on in: Theorieblog.de (2022), by Lukas Stolz and Janila Dierks.
