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)
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MPRG Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program (MPFG Historische Epistemologie der Suche nach der Weltformel)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Feb 2023-31 Jan 2025)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2022-31 Jan 2025)
The Classical Age of Quantum Gravity: from Dirac to Wheeler
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2023-31 Jan 2025)
Historical epistemology and the evolution of the ether
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Apr 2024-30 Apr 2024)
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 2022-30 Jan 2025)
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Rethinking the role of unified field theory for physics
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (15 Oct 2023-30 Nov 2023)
Fundamental Physics and Empiricism. The Plausibility of Cosmic Inflation
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 May 2023-31 Jan 2025)
An analysis of the unusual physics creativity in India in the 1920s
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2022-31 Jan 2024)
Effective Theories: Past, Present, and Beyond
Visiting Scholar (1 Feb 2018-31 Jan 2025)
Physics in Crisis: A Historical Analysis
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2023-31 Jan 2025)
Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the Development of Unified Field Theory
Visiting Student (15 Sep 2023-14 Feb 2024)
Mathematics or Physics? Idealism and the Development of Unified Field Theory