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I currently do research on the philosophy of science of “challenge-based inquiry” and related transdisciplinary humanities research programmes and their critical potential. As a philosophy of the humanities scholar, I am engaged in contemporary methodological discussions of theory development, concept formation and critical methodologies in the arts and social sciences. Coming from a background in German idealism and the tradition of continental philosophy, my main research until now has centred around GWF Hegel’s dialectical-speculative logic and its legacy in twentieth-century French thought, including in historical epistemology and feminist theory. In my current book project, Concrete Concepts (forthcoming in 2027), I examine what it means to think concretely by tracing an unexplored legacy of Hegel’s logic as a concrete method of scientific concept formation in 1930-50’s French (non-)philosophy, thus presenting an alternative logical trajectory of French dialectical thought than the usual existential and anthropological tradition. I argue how this notion of 'concrete concept' is useful as a tool in contemporary methodologies in the transdisciplinary humanities and social sciences.

Postdoc in philosophy of science at the Nordic Humanities Center, which you may follow here. Current research project: Challenging Times. Problems, Critique and “Challenge-based Inquiry” in the Humanities.

Founding member of the international research network Histories and Futures of French Travelling Concepts (Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2025-2028). Find more information on the network here.

In 2025, I held a visiting research fellowship at The Remarque Institute, New York University.

In 2026, I will be a visiting research fellow at The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at Cambridge University.

Primary fields of research

• Modern European philosophy, especially Hegel, French Hegelianism and the "turn to the concrete" in 20th century and contemporary French philosophies
• Challenge-based inquiry and problem-oriented research methods; "Philosophy of theory" and of the humanities, transdisciplinarity
• Public philosophy and applied philosophy
• Critical theory and feminist philosophy

Teaching

• Modern European philosophy, i.e. twentieth-century German/French thought, including questions around science, language, the critique of metaphysics, existence, history and the political.
• The History of Modern European Philosophy (1596-1900)
• Philosophy of science (natural sciences and SSH)
• Critical theory, cultural critique, feminist theory

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