Education

• 2017-2021 PhD – Philosophy, University of Bern. Dissertation: ‘The Power of Definition in Plato and Xunzi’
• 2020 Visiting Student – Department of Classics, Cambridge University
• 2014-2016 MPhil – Sinology, Oslo University. Thesis: ‘Not in Two Minds: Philosophy of Mind and Action in Zhū Xī’s (1130-1200) Interpretations of the Counsels of the Great Yu’
• 2013-2014 Intensive courses in Chinese, Tsinghua University
• 2012-2013 Courses in Ancient Greek and Philosophy, Oslo University
• 2009-2012 BA – Languages, Oslo University

Employment

• 2025- Post-doctoral Researcher, Asien-Orient Institut, Universität Zürich (January 2025-)
• 2023-24 Fellow, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies
• 2022-2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Institut für Philosophie, Bern Universität
• 2016 Research- and Teaching Assistant, Institute of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

• Epistemology, philosophical methodology, and ethics in ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy
• The use of definitions in ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophical texts
• Storytelling in ancient Greek and early Chinese philosophical texts

2023a. Oedipal camels? Narrative science in Aristotle's Historia Animalium. In: Martina King, Tom Oliver Kint, eds. Narrative Structure and Narrative Reasoning in Medicine and Science. Berlin: De Gruyter.

2023b. Knowing What to Do and Saying What the Way Is in Xunzi “Undoing Blindness”. Oriens Extremus.

• “Perspective and Storytelling in the Zhuāng Zǐ”. 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. Tallin. August 27. 2024.
• “Perspective and Storytelling in the Zhuāng Zǐ”. Nachwuchstagung der Schweizer Asiengesellschaft. Basel. May 9, 2024.
• “Perspective and Storytelling in the Zhuāng Zǐ”. American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting. New York. January 16, 2024.  
• “What is it like to be a god? Narrative, Explanation, and Happiness in Plato’s Timaeus”. The Centre for Hellenic Studies, December 4, 2023.
• “Representations of Perspective in Parts of the Zhuāng Zǐ”. European Association of Chinese Philosophy. Macerata University, June 16-18, 2023.
• “Joy Beyond the Life Cycle? Notes on Zhuangzi 18 “Utmost Enjoyment” 至樂”. International Society of Chinese Philosophy. East China Normal University, Shanghai. June 27, 2022.
• “Saying what the Way is and Knowing What to Do in “Undoing Blindness”, The Chinese Philosophy Reading Group, University of Warwick, Warwick. March 04, 2022.
• “De Anima 409b19-411b30”, Swiss Graduate Workshops in Ancient Philosophy, autumn 2021 CUSO Workshop on Aristotle’s De anima I. University of Fribourg, October 17, 2021