I am a postdoctoral researcher focusing on how knowledge takes shape through aesthetic and technological practices in the history and philosophy of science. I am currently based in the Philosophy Department at the University of Fribourg, where I contribute to the Swiss National Science Foundation projects Aerial Spatial Revolution and Seeing like a Satellite. Within the department, I am also a member of the research group Aesthetics & Critique. My current work traces the longue durée of vertical knowledge in philosophies of nature, while also engaging with contemporary philosophical debates on remote sensing technologies.
I received my PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2023, with a dissertation on the concepts of “limits,” “boundaries,” and “frontiers” as interdisciplinary formations in the work of the French philosopher of science Michel Serres. Before that, I studied Philosophy (BA, MA) at the University of Vienna and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Between 2021 and 2024, I was an associated researcher at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, working with the “Energy and Climate” and “Critical Thinking in the Plural” groups, and from 2023 to 2024 at the University of Groningen. While in Cambridge, I co-organized the CRASSH Research Network Remote Sensing. Ice, Instruments, Imagination (with Amelia Urry), curating events and conversations around remote sensing in the polar regions.
Across these engagements, I am interested in how the natural world is understood through both scientific instruments and aesthetic practices. I am particularly drawn to questions about how concepts travel, shaping methods, aesthetics, and intersecting ways of knowing. In the context of aesthetic practices, I focus on the role of drawing as a way of thinking—whether in conceptual sketches within philosophical texts, in scientific visualizations, or as an artistic medium in its own right—approaching it as an epistemic device that both reflects and generates knowledge.