My main areas of research are metaethics and broader metanormative theory, with connected interests in philosophy of law and social ontology. Overall, my work is driven by the fundamental challenge of explaining how norms can have a normative hold over us.
I am currently a postdoc in PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Before this, I was a postdoctoral fellow with an independent project within the Excellence Strategy of the University of Hamburg. In the last couple of years, I also spent time at the universities of Stockholm and Edinburgh as a visiting researcher.
In 2022 I completed my PhD in Philosophy at the universities of St Andrews, Stirling, and Groningen with a thesis titled “Demystifying Normativity: Morality, Error Theory, and the Authority of Norms”. I was supervised by Bart Streumer and Kent Hurtig (primary supervisors) as well as Justin Snedegar and Daan Evers (secondary supervisors).
During my PhD, I taught at the universities of St Andrews, Stirling, and Bayreuth. I also undertook a research internship at the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
Before my PhD, I completed an MLitt in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy at St Andrews and Stirling. My first step into philosophy was a BA in Philosophy at Leiden University, which I supplemented with the Honours College programme Expertise in Practice: Advising on Dilemmas in Society.
