Simon Brausch

Simon Brausch is a Predoctoral Fellow in the “Practices of Validation in the Biomedical Sciences” Research Group at the MPIWG. Under the supervision of Lara Keuck, he investigates the past and present use of technical tools for assessing the methodological quality of biomedical research data and its role in the emergence of scientific dissent.

Prior to joining the Research Group as a doctoral student, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute. Simon studied philosophy at the University of Lille and the University of Glasgow for his BA and holds an MA in Philosophy from Humboldt University, Berlin.

Before focusing his research on the social and historical epistemology of medicine, he also pursued more formal topics and methods in philosophy. In the field of logic, he worked on the problem of adequate formalization to which he proposed a dialogical approach. In his Master’s thesis, Simon explored how recent advancements in natural language processing and machine learning may be used for research in the history of ideas so as to overcome traditional scholarship’s inevitably selective approach to historical sources.