I am a postdoctoral associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and I will join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso as assistant professor in Fall 2025. In 2023–2024, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. In Spring 2023, I completed my doctorate in philosophy with doctoral minors in neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Arizona under the co-supervision of Sara Aronowitz and Mark Timmons.
I specialise in philosophy of neuroscience, psychology, and AI from the perspective of general philosophy of science. My research explores the relationships between various forms of explanation, modelling, and analysis in neuroscience, psychology, and AI. One recurring theme in my work is that the tasks that we design for and administer to natural and artificial systems alike play an understated role in shaping the many ways that we explain, model, and analyse those systems. Another recurring theme is that normative distinctions—such as between success and failure, rational and irrational, functional and dysfunctional—are scientifically indispensable because they direct us to differently explain, model, and analyse things with different normative status.