I am Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Hamburg.
My main research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, as well as in metaphysics. I am currently working on insincere communication and misinformation, on the philosophy of fiction, on the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic and pictorial communication and on issues in the philosophy of time.
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. Before joining the University of Hamburg, I spent ten years at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and two years at Freie Universität Berlin. From September 2018 until August 2019, I worked at the University of Zurich. As a visiting fellow, I've enjoyed stints at the University of Cambridge (2017/18), the University of Sydney (2022), at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München (2022) and at the UNSW AI Institute (Sydney, 2024). I'm a founding member of the Philosophy of Language Association and involved in the open access journals Meaning and Experimental Philosophy.
I'm greatly looking forward to returning to the University of Sydney on a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from October 2026 until March 2027!
Here are my profiles on PhilPeople and Google Scholar.
Many thanks to Paweł Zacharewicz for taking the photo above!
My main research interests lie in the philosophy of language and communication, as well as in metaphysics. I am currently working on insincere communication and misinformation, on the philosophy of fiction, on the semantics and pragmatics of linguistic and pictorial communication and on issues in the philosophy of time.
I received my DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2015. Before joining the University of Hamburg, I spent ten years at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and two years at Freie Universität Berlin. From September 2018 until August 2019, I worked at the University of Zurich. As a visiting fellow, I've enjoyed stints at the University of Cambridge (2017/18), the University of Sydney (2022), at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU München (2022) and at the UNSW AI Institute (Sydney, 2024). I'm a founding member of the Philosophy of Language Association and involved in the open access journals Meaning and Experimental Philosophy.
I'm greatly looking forward to returning to the University of Sydney on a Feodor Lynen Fellowship from October 2026 until March 2027!
Here are my profiles on PhilPeople and Google Scholar.
Many thanks to Paweł Zacharewicz for taking the photo above!
