I am an assistant professor at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich and an affiliated member at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. I am also the principal investigator for the research project The Scale Revolution in Physics, which is supported by a “Pioneering Research” grant from the Volkswagen Foundation.
I received my PhD in Philosophy from Columbia University in 2020, where I also taught in the Core Curriculum. Before that, I completed a MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) at the University of Cambridge, and I did my undergraduate studies at Ecole Centrale Paris.
My main research focus is on the history and philosophy of physics. I explore how recent developments at the frontiers of physics, especially in the quantum realm, affect our understanding of why science works so well. I have looked primarily at the framework of effective theories up until now, moving more recently toward history to trace their origins and gain further conceptual insights. Along the way, I have been led to develop new projects in the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of science (e.g., the status of gauge symmetries, the concepts of open and closed systems, and the epistemic value of discretization methods). My other research interests include metaphysics and early modern philosophy.