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ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE

Regensburg
Akademischer Rat a.Z. (untenured lecturer with temporary civil servant status - not tenure track) at the Chair for Practical Philosophy (Weyma Lübbe), since 4/2009
      
Leipzig
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair for Practical Philosophy (Weyma Lübbe), 3/2008 - 3/2009
 
Saarbrücken
Temporary Professorship for Practical Philosophy (Lehrstuhlvertretung Christoph Fehige/Ulla Wessels), 10/2007-2/2008
 
Glasgow
Temporary Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, 1/2006-3/2006

Witten/Herdecke
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair for Economics and Philosophy (Chris Mantzavinos), Faculty of Economics and Managenemt, 2/2005-10/2007   

Konstanz
Fellow at the Philosophy, Probability and Modeling Group (directed by Luc Bovens and Stephan Hartmann), 10/2002-2/2005 

University of California, San Diego
Visiting Research Student, 2001
Seminars with David Brink, Richard Arneson and Gerald Doppelt

London School of Economics   
PhD in Philosophy, awarded 3/2005 (submitted in mid-2004) 
Thesis on Mill's Utilitarianism.
Supervisor: Nancy Cartwright.
Examiners: John Skorupski and Jonathan Wolff.

BSc in Philosophy and Economics (First Class), awarded 7/1998


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Full responsibility for all courses, held in seminar form (ca. 15 sessions of 90 mins), unless stated otherwise. 'G' means graduate level (Hauptseminar).

Regensburg

coming up:
Moral Responsibility G
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Kant, Aristotle

present and past:
Advanced Moral Theory G
Rawls: Theory of Justice and its critics G
Moral Objectivity
Global Justice G
Moral Philosophy: Mill, Kant, Aristotle
Introduction to Political Philosophy
Basic Income G
Paternalism

Leipzig
Basic Income G
Applied Ethics
Life and Death

Saarbrücken
Introduction to Ethics and Applied Ethics (30 lectures)
Rawls: History of Moral Philosophy
Basic Income G

Glasgow
Egalitarianism and its Critics (10 lectures and 10 seminars) G
Metaethics (18 lectures)

Witten/Herdecke
Logic (TA, drawing up of exam and all examining, several times)
Basic Income G
Philosopy of Social Science G
Causality - Theory and Practice

Konstanz
Introduction to Epistemology (TA to Wolfgang Spohn)
Philosophy and Sport, Games and Decisions (individual seminars)

Freiburg i.Br.
John Stuart Mill's Social Philosophy

London School of Economics
Occasional Teacher (Teaching Assistant) since 1998 in various courses, mostly several times: 
Philosophy of Economics (R. Bradley, J. Berkovitz, M. Perlman)
Social Philosophy (R. Bradley, E. Montuschi),
Logic (G. Marti), including marking of written final exams.


PRIZES, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS

DFG Grant for the conference on Degrees of Belief, Konstanz 2004 (with Franz Huber, Luc Bovens and Wolfgang Spohn)

Jacobsen Fellowship, Royal Institute of Philosophy, London, 2001/2002

Aristotelian Society, Travel Grant, 2001

London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy, Research Studentship, 1998/1999, 2000/2001

AHRB Arts and Humanities Research Board, PhD scholarship (EU students: fees only), 1999/2001

London School of Economics, Department of Philosophy, Andrea Mannu Prize (best degree result that year), 1998



OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Member of the Editorial Board, Economics and Philosophy (1/2010-present)

Managing Editor, Economics and Philosophy, (10/2002-12/2008)

Editorial Assistant, Mind, (10/2001-10/2002)

Research Assistant to Nancy Cartwright, Ned McClennen and Carl Hoefer while PhD student

Member, Measurement Group, Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, 2001

Refereeing for Economics and Philosophy; Erkenntnis; Synthese; Rationality, Markts and Morals; BJPS (declined), Oxford University Press (monograph), Peter Lang Verlag (monograph), Palgrave MacMillan (monograph)