CURRENT PROJECTS

COMPLETED PROJECTS

• The Role of Transcultural Semantics and Symbols for Resilience During the Corona Pandemic – A Hermeneutic Approach to Historical and Intercultural Expressions of Severe Crisis, research project funded by Volkswagen Foundation (2021–2023)
• Resilience in Religion and Spirituality, research unit funded by the German Research Foundation (2019–2023)
• Materiality and Agency: New Paradigms in the Study of Human Development, Culture, and Cognition, project within the Collaborative Research Centre 806 “Our Way to Europe”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), University of Cologne (2017–2021)
• Cologne-Lisbon Philosophy of Technology Lab, collaborative research project between the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne and the Center for Philosophy of Sciences at the University of Lisbon (2017–2021)
• Cologne Summer School of Interdisciplinary Anthropology (CSIA), funded by the Collaborative Research Centre 806 “Our Way to Europe” (2019)
• Understanding Others: Integration of Social Cognitive and Affective Processes, Scientific Network, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (2017–2019)
• Transformations of Knowledge, postdoctoral research group funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Science Council, University of Cologne (2014–2018)
• Cologne Summer School of Interdisciplinary Anthropology (CSIA), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Cologne (2015–2017). Collaborators: Andreas Speer, Dietrich Boschung, Jürgen Richter, Martin Zillinger, Johannes Schick
• “Time and Intentionality”, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2016). Collaborator: Maxime Doyon
• “Visibility and Empathy: Philosophical Explorations of Human Intersubjectivity”, research project funded by Volkswagen Foundation (2014–2015), Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
• “Embodiment as Paradigm for an Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology”, research project hosted by the Marsilius-Kolleg, University of Heidelberg (2012–2014). Collaborators: Gregor Etzelmüller, Thomas Fuchs, Grit Schwarzkopf, Klaus Tanner, Michael Welker
• “Anthropology and Ethics”, research network funded by the German Excellence Initiative (2012–2014), University of Heidelberg. Collaborators: Gregor Etzelmüller, Thomas Fuchs, Grit Schwarzkopf, Klaus Tanner, Michael Welker
• “Normativity in Perception: Phenomenological, Analytical, and Psychopathological Perspectives”, research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013). Collaborators: Maxime Doyon, Ian Gold, Hans-Helmuth Gander, Thomas Fuchs
• “Anthropology of Intersubjectivity” (2011–2013), University of Freiburg, research project funded by the Elite Programme for Postdocs of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation and Hermann Paul School of Linguistics (HPSL).
• “The Brain as a Social Organ” (2011–2012), University of Heidelberg, research project funded by Volkswagen Foundation. Collaborators: Thomas Fuchs, Monika Dullstein, Andreas Mayer
• “New Interdisciplinary Anthropology: Body – Mind – Culture” (2012), University of Heidelberg, summer academy funded by the Marsilius-Kolleg and BASF SE. Collaborators: Gregor Etzelmüller, Thomas Fuchs, Grit Schwarzkopf, Klaus Tanner, Michael Welker
• “Indexing Authenticity: Perspectives from Linguistics and Anthropology” (2011), research project funded by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). Collaborators: Véronique Lacoste, Jacob Leimgruber
• “CyberAnthropology – Being Human on the Internet” (2011), research project, University of Freiburg and Humboldt University of Berlin. Collaborators: Johanna Sprondel, Maren Wehrle
• “Attention – Perspectives from Phenomenology and Cognitive Psychology” (2007–2010), research project, University of Freiburg. Collaborators: Hans-Helmuth Gander, Gerhard Strube, Maren Wehrle