London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D., Philosophy, 2005
Thesis on Mill's Utilitarianism
Supervisor: Nancy Cartwright
Examiners: Jonathan Wolff and John Skorupski
B.Sc., Philosophy & Economics, 1998
First Class Honours, Andrea Mannu Prize
(best bachelor degree that year in the Dept. of
Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)
Member of the Bentham Committee (2018-now)
Co-Organiser of ISUS 2018 at KIT (with M. Schefczyk)
Winner of the Bentham Hackathon 2017 (Bentham Project, UCL/Centre for Digital Humanities) with the team 'Bentham's Head' (F. Mackenzie, O. Mattos, C. Schmidt-Petri, C. Small)
Gesellschaft für Utilitarismusstudien e.V.: (German Society for Utilitarian Studies) Executive
Vice-President, President, Treasurer (2016-2019, 2020-2021, 2022-2023, respectively)
Managing Editor, Moral Philosophy and Politics (2016-2020)
Member of the Editorial Board, Economics and Philosophy (2010-2015)
Managing Editor, Economics and Philosophy, (10/2002-12/2008)
Editorial Assistant, Mind, (10/2001-10/2002)
Journals: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science; Croatian Journal of Philosophy; Economics and Philosophy; Ergo; Erkenntnis; Ethics and Economics; European Journal for Philosophy of Science; European Journal of Political Theory; History of Economic Ideas; Journal of the History of Philosophy; Journal of Social Philosophy; Moral Philosophy and Politics; Pacific Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophical Studies; Principia; Prolegomena; Rationality, Markets and Morals; Review of Politics; Synthese; Theory and Decision; Utilitas; Vaccine; Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie
Publishers: Oxford University Press; Routledge; Peter Lang; Palgrave Macmillan.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
-- Lecturer at the secion for Practical Philosophy, 4/2015-now (tenured 4/2017)
-- Temporary Professorship for Philosophical Anthropology, 4/2017-10/2017
Regensburg
Lecturer (Akademischer Rat. a.Z.) at the Chair for Practical Philosophy, 4/2009-3/2015
Leipzig
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair for Practical Philosophy, 3/2008 - 3/2009
Saarbrücken
Temporary Professorship for Practical Philosophy, 10/2007-2/2008
Glasgow
Temporary Lecturer in the Department of
Philosophy, 1/2006-3/2006
Witten/Herdecke
Lecturer at the Chair for Economics and Philosophy, Faculty of Economics and Managenemt, 2/2005-10/2007
On leave 1/06-4/06 (Glasgow) and 2/07-10/07 (Paternity leave)
Konstanz
Fellow at the Philosophy, Probability and Modeling Group, 10/2002-2/2005.
Occasional teaching in the Department of Philosophy.
Research Asisstant to J. Mittelstraß (in his function as President of the Academia Europaea)
University of California, San Diego
Visiting Research Student, summer 2001
Seminars with David Brink, Richard Arneson and Gerald Doppelt