I am a philosopher of mind and cognition, specialising in empirically informed research on 4E cognition, enculturation, and predictive processing.
A core question that has been at the centre of my research is this: how do we acquire culturally evolved cognitive practices such as reading, writing, and arithmetic and how does competence in these practices transform our overall mental capacities?
I also have an interest in interdisciplinary research on mental disorders (especially major depressive disorder and schizophrenia) and spontaneous cognition (especially mind-wandering).

I am a member of the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. I am working on my project Living to tell, telling to live: Experience, narrative, and the self (2021-2024), funded by an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA).
In this project, I explore the relationship between lived embodied experience and self-narrative in bringing about a sense of self. I integrate research in philosophy of mind and cognition, the empirical cognitive sciences, and cognitive narratology.

Previously, I worked in the Department of Philosophy II at Ruhr University Bochum (07/2018-08/2021) and the Department of Psychology at Justus Liebig University of Giessen (04/2016-06/2018).

I received my PhD in philosophy (summa cum laude) at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in July 2015. My dissertation, supervised by Thomas Metzinger and Richard Menary, was awarded the Barbara Wengeler Prize 2016.

I am an Editor-in-Chief (fixed-term) of Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (open access, no publication fees).