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Resume

Qualifications

  • Habilitation, University of Koblenz, 2017 (Close Talking: Erleben zur Sprache bringen.)

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy on “Humility” (summa cum laude), University of Zurich, 1996

  • Bachelor and Master in Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Universities of Vienna, Oxford, Zurich, 1985–1990

Professional Activities

  • Conceptual Director of the Excellence Grant "Freedom to Make Sense: Experiential, mindful and artistic research"

  • Academic Director TECT and TECTU: Training Embodied Critical Thinking and Understanding, Erasmus + Strategic Partnership in Higher Education with today seven universities participating, since 2021

  • Interim Professorship, University of Koblenz, Summer term 2020

  • Fellow at the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, 2019-2020

  • Guest Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Iceland, since 2018

  • Project manager of the international research project “Embodied Critical Thinking,” University of Iceland in cooperation with University Aarhus, DePaul University, Micro-Phenomenology Laboratory, 2018

  • Senior Lecturer University of Koblenz, since 2017

  • Visiting Professor at the Philosophy Department, DePaul University, Chicago, 2014–15/2017

  • Visiting Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, 2012–2014

  • Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department, Columbia University, New York, 2012

  • Fellow, Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche, Weimar, 2010

  • Assistant Professor at the Philosophy Department, ETH Zurich, 2007–2013

  • Coordinator and Program Director “Science and Wisdom,“ Center for Continuous Education, University of Zurich, since 2002

  • Assistant researcher at the Philosophy Department (Prof. H. Holzhey, Prof. G. Kohler), University of Zurich, 1994–2000

  • Journalist and Film director (ARD, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Tagesspiegel Berlin, Kulturmagazin DU), 1990–1999

Additional Training and Teaching in Embodied Integrative Thinking Methods

  • Training in the Micro-Phenomenological Research Method, with Prof. C. Petitmengin in Paris, 2013–2016. 

  • Training in Thinking-at-the–Edge and Focusing, (First-and-second person practices to engage tacit dimensions of experiential understanding) with Prof. E. Gendlin, New York, and other teachers in Switzerland, Germany and the US, 2004–2010

  • Regular meditation practice, contemplative Christian and Zen-Practice, since 2002

  • Teaching Embodied Embodied CriticalThinking workshops at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, University of Chicago, DePaul University at Chicago, Technion at Haifa, Kunstakademie Baden Württemberg etc., since 2012

Engagement in Research Groups

  • Principal investigator of the Excellence Grant Freedom to Make Sense: Embodied, Experiential and Mindful Research, since 2024

  • Principal investigator and project manager of Embodied Critical Thinking, University of Iceland, Aarhus University, DePaul University, Micro-Phenomenology Laboratory, 2018 - 2021

  • Member of the Think-tank Micro-Phenomenology and Contemplative Experience: Exploring the Intra- and Intersubjective Dynamics of Language and Embodied Experience, Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, January 2017

  • Research-Member of the Micro-Phenomenology Laboratory, Paris, 2016–present

  • Member of the Peer Mentoring Project Philosophische Kehrseiten, University of Zurich, 2009–2011

  • Founding-member of the Lehrhaus für das Denken der Religionen Heidelberg, 2002–present

  • Initiator and director of the Interdisciplinary Forum on the Limits of Conceptual Thinking, University of Zurich, 2002–2004

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