MA in philosophy 1999 at the University of Zürich, PhD with a dissertation on pragmatist philosophy of language 2005 at Sheffield University (UK) under supervision of Chris Hookway and Jennifer Saul. Research stay with Robert Brandom at the University of Pittsburgh 2001–2002. Habilitation at the University of Zürich 2005–2011 with a thesis on meta-epistemology, published 2017 as “Refurbishing Epistemology: A Meta-Epistemological Framework” (De Gruyter). I’ve taught continously at the University of Zürich since 2005, first as a research assistant, then as a Privatdozent; teaching focus on issues of Critical Thinking, argumentation, philosophy of language and epistemology. Since 2010 I teach philosophy at Gymnasia (High Schools) with an educational research focus on how to implement Critical Thinking skills (argumentation, conceptual clarity, applied epistemology and philosophy of science) at both Secondary Education and university.

• Philosophy of Language: focus on pragmatist accounts of linguistic meaning in terms of language use (Wittgenstein, Brandom)
• Epistemology: focus on applied epistemology as well as meta-epistemological questions regarding epistemology’s aims and criteria of success
• Feminist philosophy: focus on feminist epistemology and philosophy of language in the analytic tradition
• Critical thinking: argumentative and conceptual skills, applied epistemology and philosophy of language, methods in philosophy