I studied philosophy and psychology in Hamburg, Oxford, Marburg and SUNY Stony Brook and received a MA degree in Philosophy and a “Diplom” in Psychology from Hamburg University and a doctorate in Philosophy from Phillips-University Marburg. I also received extensive training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at AWKV Marburg, including clinical experience and supervision at outpatient psychotherapy clinics as AWKV Marburg and Kassel and PAM at University of Marburg.

bioethics (especially health care ethics), research ethics, moral philosophy and its intersections with psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience, the significance of empirical research for moral philosophy.