Curriculum Vitae

• as of 2010 Head of Department, Philosophy Department, University of Magdeburg
• as of 2009 Full Professor (Chair) for Theoretical Philosophy, University of Magdeburg
• 2008-2009 Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessur), Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld
• 2008 Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessur), Department of Philosophy, University of Augsburg
• 2006-2007 Visiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessur), Department of Philosophy, University of Bielefeld
• 2004-2009 Associate Professor without tenure (Privatdozent, Oberassistent), Philosophy Department, University of Bonn
• 2003 Habilitation (venia legendi in philosophy), University of Bonn
• 2002-2003 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, Prof. Dr. A. Bartels) Philosophy Department, University of Bonn
• 1998-1999 Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
• 1997-2002 Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), Institute for Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 1994-1997 Close collaboration with Prof. Dr. C. F. von Weizsäcker, Starnberg
• 1996 Dr. phil. degree in philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 1993-1996 PhD student (Prof. Dr. M. Drieschner), Institute for Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 1993 Diploma degree in physics, University of Dortmund
• 1991-1993 Student assistant, Chair of Systems Biophysics (Prof. Dr. C. von der Malsburg), Institute for Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-University Bochum
• 1990-1991 Student assistant, Fraunhofer-Institute of Material Flow and Logistics, Dortmund
• 1987-1993 Study of physics, philosophy and neural computation at the universities of Marburg, Dortmund and Bochum