Fig. 1: Werner Heisenberg presenting his "Weltformel" at the 1958 Planck Centenary in West Berlin. Source: DPA.
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Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program
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Research Group Leader (1 Nov 2017-31 Jan 2025)
PhD
MPRG Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program (MPFG Historische Epistemologie der Suche nach der Weltformel)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2023-31 Jan 2024)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Jan 2024)
The Classical Age of Quantum Gravity: from Dirac to Wheeler
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2021-31 Jan 2023)
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Concepts from mesoscopic physics in particle physics. Unveiling a success story in modern science
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (3 Oct 2022-2 Dec 2022)
The Importance of Historical Epistemology for the Philosophy of Science. The Ether as a Resilient Epistemic Object
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2017-31 Jan 2025)
PhD
Stephen Hawking's Attempts to Unify Physics (1970s-2010s): A Contribution Toward the Year of Quantum Science
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2022-31 Oct 2023)
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The Role of Mathematics in the Final Theory Program
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2022-30 Nov 2022)
Fundamental Physics and Empiricism. The Plausibility of Contemporary Theories with No Empirical Confirmation
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Dec 2022-30 Nov 2023)
Philip Anderson Against the Big Machines: And How Emergence Made its Way into Physics
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2022-31 Dec 2022)
Edmund Whittaker, Arthur Eddington and the Final Theory Program
Visiting Scholar (1 May 2023-30 Jun 2023)
An analysis of the unusual physics creativity in India in the 1920s
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Jan 2023)
Effective Theories: Past, Present, and Beyond
Research Scholar (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2024)
Physics in Crisis: A Historical Analysis
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (31 Oct 2022-5 Feb 2023)
How do Future Worldviews Emerge? Quantum Physics, and the Case of Werner Heisenberg’s ‘Religion without God’