I am a philosopher of science, working on foundational issues of scientific explanation, models and understanding, particularly in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, biology, and AI.

One of my most distinct philosophical contributions is the development of an account of topological explanations. This account provides necessary and sufficient conditions under which network models offer genuine explanations, drawing on mathematically quantifiable connectivity patterns from big data sets in various domains of science. It has shaped ongoing debates on scientific explanations in the philosophy of science.

Together with James F. Woodward, I'm currently guest-editing a Topical Collection in Synthese on "New Work on Networks."

I'm also a co-founder and the founding coordinator of the “East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS)”, co-founder and co-convener of the annual workshop series "Scientific Understanding and Representation (SURe)", as well as the “Dutch Distinguished Lecture Series in Philosophy and Neuroscience (DDLS)”.

My project "Philosophical Foundations of Topological Explanations"  (Acronym: TOPEX, GA n°: 703662), which was hosted at the IHPST (CNRS-Sorbonne Pantheon Paris 1),  has been supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme. 

​I have co-edited (with Claus Hilgetag and Marc Tittgemeyer) a theme issue in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, on the topic of “Unifying the essential concepts of biological networks”.  

I received my PhD degree in philosophy from Humboldt University in Berlin. I was a visiting PhD student at King's College London where I worked with Professor David Papineau who was also one of my PhD examiners. 

I am a tea and music connoisseur and cycling enthusiast (although I'm more enthusing than riding lately). I have a modest tea collection, which contains some very good vintages of Pu Erhs (1982, 1985, 1986), Da Hong Pao, Grand Cru Gyokuros from Kagoshima and Uji regions in Japan, as well as some single estate Grand Crus (mostly Spring and Summer flushes) from Darjeeling in India and Nepal. 
 
I play guitar and keyboards, and my band KOKHA, which is a musical collaboration with Kareem Khalifa, and we released our debut EP "Mental Health" on Bandcamp.