University of Hannover

Faculty Member, Institute of Philosophy

Other Affiliations: University of Hannover, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science

Junior Professor of Philosophy of Biology

About

Principal research key word clusters:

- Classification in the life sciences; systematic biology, taxonomy and phylogenetics; natural kinds; essentialism; species problem.
- Evolutionary theory; core concepts in evolution; evolutionary explanations; extended synthesis; generalized darwinism; non-biological evolution.
- Ethics of science; good scientific practice; scientific misconduct; bioethics.
- Science education; using philosophy of biology in biology education.

Current:

- Junior Professor of Philosophy of Biology, Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Joint Editor-in-Chief (With Charles T. Wolfe and Philippe Huneman) of the Springer book series History, Philosophy & Theory of the Life Sciences: http://www.springer.com/series/8916
- Associate Editor (for philosophy of biology) and Book Reviews Editor of the Springer journal Acta Biotheoretica: http://www.springer.com/journal/10441
- Founding member and Treasurer of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie e.V.): http://www.wissphil.de

Past:

- Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science (ZEWW), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Ph.D. (Philosophy of Biology), Institute of Biology (Philosophy of the Life Sciences group in the Section of Theoretical Biology), Leiden University, The Netherlands
- M.A. (Philosophy of Science), Leiden University, The Netherlands
- M.Sc. (Experimental Physics), Leiden University, The Netherlands

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