| 1986-1993: | Education as elementary school teacher in Switzerland (St. Gallen) |
| 1993-2000: | Student of philosophy and German Studies at Basel University |
| 2000-2003: | Assistant at the philosophical seminar at Prof. Dr. D. Perler's chair at Basel University |
| 2002-2004: | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Chair for theoretical philosophy at Humboldt-University, Berlin |
| 8/2004: | Ph.D. in Basel (dissertation about "Die anthropologische Differenz. Der Geist der Tiere in der frühen Neuzeit bei Montaigne, Descartes und Hume") |
| 12/2004: | Wissenschaftlicher Assistent at Dominik Perler's chair for theoretical philosophy at Humboldt-University, Berlin |