Year	Activity
since 2022	Member of the Board of Trustees of the Liberal Institute of Switzerland Member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society Germany
2019	Summer term senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies "Imaginaria of Force" at the University of Hamburg
2016-2021	Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
2013	Humboldt Research Award (Forschungspreis) of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, spending the academic year 2014/15 at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
since 2010	Fellow of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, the National Academy of Germany
2008	Award of the cogito foundation for dialog between human and natural sciences
2004-2014 and 2020-2022	Head of the Department of Philosophy of Lausanne University
Since Oct. 2002	Full professor of philosophy of science at the University of Lausanne
2001-2002	Associate professor (C3) of epistemology, philosophy of science and logic at Albertus Magnus University Cologne
09/2000-03/2001​	Heisenberg Fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Konstanz
2000	Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire
1997-2001	Research Fellow and Privatdozent (since 2000) at the Department of Philosophy and Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Feb. 2000	Habilitation at the University of Konstanz (Germany), Habilitation Thesis on "Holism in Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Physics", habilitation funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1998-2000)
1996-99	Visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (with Prof. Michael Redhead and Dr. Jeremy Butterfield, 1996/97), the Australian National University Canberra (with Prof. Philip Pettit, 1998), and the University of Pittsburgh (with Prof. Robert Brandom, 1999)
1994-96	Postdoctoral guest researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, research work on the philosophy of quantum theory (group of Prof. Hans Primas), funded by a postdoctoral scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the Dr. Meyer-Struckmann-Stiftung (1995-1998)
1994	PhD-degree in philosophy at Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany), PhD-Thesis on "Mechanismus und Subjektivität in der Philosophie von Th. Hobbes" (supervisor Prof. Dr. Peter Rohs, co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep)
1987-94	Scholarship by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
1986-94	Studies of philosophy and history at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (1986-1991), Université de Lausanne (1987/88), and Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (PhD) (1992-1994)
1986	High School graduation (Abitur)
1966	Born in Berlin (West)