As a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, I aim to understand the philosophical underpinnings and historical genesis of modern and contemporary medicine, especially in relation to the biomedical sciences. By focusing on the issue of clinical judgment, this work also aims to clarify a number of perennial questions in medical ethics.

Prior to coming to Notre Dame, I was trained as a physician-scientist at Charité Medical School (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), where I earned both an M.D. and a Ph.D. My subsequent career was divided between wet-lab research in transplant immunology (at Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, where I held a postdoctoral position) and clinical training in anatomic pathology as well as nephrology. I also worked with a Berlin-based health tech start-up to help move AI-based image recognition into diagnostic histopathology.

My work in philosophy grows out of a long-standing and ongoing interest in the history of science and medicine in Greek-speaking late antiquity, and the theological anthropology that it gave rise to. I hold a Ph.D. in Divinity from the University of Aberdeen, obtained with John Behr as my advisor.