Current position
2021–: Philosophy teacher (“Professeur de philosophie”) at the Collège St. Michel Fribourg (Grammar School)
- Associate member PHARE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Previous Positions, Education and Trainings
2016–2021: SNSF professor, University of Lausanne, Section de philosophie
- Research project: Tolerance, Intolerance and Discrimination Regarding Religion (2016–2021, PI)
- Research project: The Metaphor of Vision in Tolerance (2021–23, renounced for the permanent position at the Collège St. Michel)
- Feb. 2021: Qualification à la fonction de Professeur des Universités by the Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche de France
- Sept. 2020: Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Hdr), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
- Feb. 2017: Teaching Staff mobility, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
2010–2016: Assistant docteur, University of Fribourg, Département de philosophie
- March 2014–Aug. 2014: Visiting Research Fellow (SNSF Advanced PostDoc Mobility Fellowship), University of Edinburgh, IASH (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities)
- Sept. 2013–Feb. 2014: Visiting Research Fellow (SNSF Advanced PostDoc Mobility Fellowship), University of St. Andrews, Department of Philosophy & Department of History (Intellectual History)
- Feb. 2015, 2013 & 2012: Swiss–Europe Exchange and Erasmus Teaching Staff mobility, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont–Ferrand II
- July–Aug. 2012: SNSF Short visit research stay / visiting fellow, University of Glasgow, School of Humanities
- Feb. 2011: Qualification à la fonction de Maître de conférences by the Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche de France
2009–2010: Post–Doc, Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont–Ferrand II), Centre de recherches PHIER (‘Philosophies et rationalités’)
Sept. 2003–Feb. 2009: Assistant doctorant, Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de philosophie
- 2009, 27th of March: Doctoral Exam (“soutenance” / viva) at the Université de Neuchâtel
- PhD: Self–love in Early 18th–Century British Moral Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Butler and Campbell
- Jury: Prof. Richard Glauser (supervisor, Neuchâtel); Prof. Alexander Broadie (Glasgow); Dr. James Harris (St. Andrews); Prof. Laurent Jaffro (Clermont–Ferrand II/Sorbonne)
- Sept. 2006–Aug. 2007: Research stay, University of Glasgow, Departments of philosophy and history
- Nov.–Dec. 2005: Research stay, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont–Ferrand II
2003–2004: Scientific Collaborator and Research Assistant, University of Berne, IKAÖ (Interfakultäre Koordinationsstelle für Allgemeine Ökologie)
- Member of the Research Group ‘Forschungsgruppe Inter–/Transdisziplinarität‘
2000–2002: Teacher Training for Grammar School level, University of Berne, AHL (Abteilung für das Höhere Lehramt) (Education)
- 2003: Teaching Diploma for Grammar Schools (Philosophy & German), Award of Recognition
1995–2002: Studies in philosophy, German literature and German language, University of Berne, and FU Berlin (Free University of Berlin) (Education)