| 5/1990: | Abitur, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium, Ratingen |
| 10/1990 - 07/1996: | Undergraduate and Graduate Studies in Philosophy, Linguistics and German Literature at the Universities of Bochum, Budapest und Hull |
| 02/1994 - 07/1995 | Visiting Student at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (ELTE) |
| 09/1995 - 03/1996: | Visiting Student at Hull University, UK |
| 15/071996: | Magister Artium (“with distinction”); supervisors: Kurt Flasch (Philosophy), Roland Harweg (Linguistics), Peter-André Alt (German Literature) |
| 16/02/2001: | PhD in Philosophy with a dissertation on Ockham’s Theory of Mental Language (“summa cum laude”); supervisors: Burkhard Mojsisch and Gert König |
| 04/2002-03/2004 | Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge, UK; collaboration with John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge (funded by the Emmy Noether-Programme of the DFG) |
| 04/2004-03/2006 | Research Associate of the Interdisziplinäres Zentrum ‚Mittelalter – Renaissance – Frühe Neuzeit’ at the Freie Universität Berlin. |
| 04/2006-01/2008 | Research Associate (Theoretical Philosophy) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 02/2008-09/2009 | Research Associate at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Leibniz-Preis-Projekt Transformationen des Geistes. Philosophische Psychologie 1500-1700 |
| 08/2008-04/2009 | Habilitation in Philosophy with a dissertation on Locke’s Conception of Language (referees: Dominik Perler, Michael Pauen, Udo Thiel); paper and colloquium on Freedom in Spinoza; inaugural lecture on Locke and the Myth of the Given |
| 10/2009-03/2010 | Visiting Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Tübingen University |
| Since 04/2010 | Chair of the research group “Transformations of the Mind. Philosophical Psychology from 1500 to 1750” at Humboldt University Berlin
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