About

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I am an environmental philosopher specialising in moral and political philosophy. In my research I have been primarily focusing on two areas: conservation ethics, such as on themes like biocentrism and natural otherness & green political theory, such as questions of interspecies and environmental justice and what this implies for sustainability and just conservation. I also have a research interest in agricultural ethics with an eye towards the moral consideration of lifeforms that are typically regarded to be ‘non-sentient’ like plants, microbes, fungi and insects.

In 2024 I joined KU Leuven as an assistant professor (tenure track) in environmental philosophy at Research in Political Philosophy and Ethics Leuven (RIPPLE). Previous positions at the University of Oslo (2023-2024), the University of Zurich (2019-2022) & Keele University (2018). PhD in political theory from the University of Manchester in 2018. Research visit at the University of Jyväskylä in 2024.  

Editor-in-Chief: Environmental Values

Principal Investigator of the upcoming ERC-Starting Grant project “BIOTA: A Biocentric Ethic of Sustainable Agriculture” (2026-2031). Now hiring! Two PhD Researcher Positions in Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. Application deadline: 5 January 2026.