Welcome to my website.

I am a philosopher working in the field of ethics in general, with a particular focus on applied ethics. I have, amongst other things, a strong interest in medical ethics, animal ethics and environmental ethics, as well as the interconnectedness of these fields (such as the ethics of One Health approaches).

Since September 2024, I am a lecturer and senior researcher at the Environmental Sciences and Humanities Institute at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

In addition, I am currently writing a report on behalf of the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology ECNH on the notion of benefit in animal research. It will be published in book form at the end of 2025.

From September 2019 to August 2024, I was an assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Basel and led the Swiss National Science Foundation PRIMA-project Beastly Politics — A Theory of Justice for Nonhuman Animals with two collaborators (a PhD student and a postdoctoral researcher).

I am one of the organizers of the annual Swiss Animal-Environmental Ethics Network Meeting. More information about the 3^rd edition in November 2024 can be found here.

My monograph ‘The Moral Implications of Human and Animal Vulnerability’ was published in 2023 with Palgrave Macmillan (open access) and can be downloaded here free of charge: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-25078-1