Projects

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

ONGOING 2024-2026: PI of the project ‘Sustainability and the Ethics of Nature Conservation‘ funded by the KU Leuven Start-up Grant 2024, KU Leuven (Employed postdoctoral researcher: Dr Hannah Battersby)

2024-2025: Participant in the project “The Ethics of Conservation Biotechnology: A Conceptual Engineering Approach“, lead by Ronald Sandler and Clare Palmer, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Northeastern University

2023-2024: Employment on the project “Dynamic Territory (DynamiTE)“, PI: Alejandra Mancilla, situated at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas and funded by the European Research Council, University of Oslo

2022-2023Principal investigator of the project “Just Anthropocene” situated at the Department of Philosophy and funded by the Forschungskredit Postdoc, University of Zurich

2021-2022: Joint project entitled “When is (bio)diversity good/valuable?” with Norman Backhaus, Anna Deplazes-Zemp and Mollie Chapman, funded by the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity, University of Zurich

2019-2021: Employment on the project “Peoples’ Place in Nature“, PI: Anna Deplazes-Zemp, funded by the URPP Global Change and Biodiversity and the NOMIS Foundation and situated at the Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich

2014-2018: PhD Project entitled “Just Footprints: distributing ecological space across species and place” funded by studentships awarded by the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment (Keele University) and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (University of Manchester). The project was situated at Keele University at first and then at the Politics Department (Manchester Centre for Political Theory; MANCEPT) and the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI) of the University of Manchester. Supervision: Prof. Sherilyn MacGregor & Prof. John O’Neill.