Since 2023:
Research Assistant and PhD student at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Dissertation in Progress: "Computational "Emotion Recognition" From a Feminist-Philosophical Perspective"
2023:
M.A. in Philosophy at Bielefeld University, Germany
Thesis: "Emotions and Language: Do we express what we feel or do we feel what we express?"
2018:
B.A. in Educational Sciences (core subject), Ethics and Literature (subsidiary subjects) at Bielefeld University, Germany
Research Interests
Philosophy of emotion
Feminist philosophy of science
Affective Computing
(Machine) Bias
(Social) Inequalities
Courses taught
"Emotions in Science" (SS 2026)
"Epistemic knowledge and emotions" (WS 2025/26)
"Descartes — Meditations" (WS 2024/25)
"David Hume — A treatise of human nature" (SS 2024, SS 2025)
"Philosophical theories of emotions" (SS 2024)
"Descartes — The passions of the soul" (WS 2023/24)
"A feminist approach to the philosophy of emotion" (SS 2023)
Talks
“Implicit Ideology in Emotion Detection Technology — Isn’t EDT helpful to teach autistic people emotion recognition?”, Conference Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiries (CEPE), Tor Vergata Università Degli Studi Di Roma, Rome, Italy (24.09.2025-26.09.2025).
“Implicit Ideology in Emotion Detection Technology — Isn’t EDT helpful to teach autistic people emotion recognition?”, Conference “Shaping Sustainable AI And its Futures”, Bonn Sustainable AI Lab, Institute for Science and Ethics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany (16.09.2025-18.09.2025).
“Implicit Ideology in Emotion Detection Technology — Isn’t EDT helpful to teach autistic people emotion recognition?”, Conference European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions(EPSSE), Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France (11.06.2025-13.06.2025).
“The Emotions And Idealising Intelligence — Debunking The Historical Stigmatisation of Emotions in Computational Emotion Recognition”, Workshop Philosophy, Critique and AI (PCAI), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgien (23 Mai 2025).
“The Codability of Facial Emotion Expression — Linguistic challenges“, Workshop Ethics Meets Affective Computing (EMAC), Augsburg University, Germany (30-31 Januar 2025).
“Does Pepper Tell Us What to Feel? — Hidden Normativity in Emotion Detection Technology“, Workshop Feminist Analytical Philosophy, Technical University Dortmund, Germany (October 10-11, 2024).
