Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

I am a PhD student working at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Carl Hoefer and José Diez. My research centers on the questions if, when and why scientist make causal claims that go beyond the evidence that is available. For this project I will be looking more closely at medical science, in which it seems that scientists, motivated by the strong link with medical practice, sometimes make causal claims on the basis of purely correlative evidence. In general, my areas of interest are philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. 

Before coming to Barcelona, I obtained my BA in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and my MSc in Logic at the Institute for Logic, Language and Information (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. During my master’s, I specialized in philosophy of time, philosophy of quantum mechanics and philosophy of information. 
 
Next to philosophy, I have a passion for science communication. In between my master’s and this PhD, I have worked as a science journalist for a Dutch newspaper. With friends from Amsterdam I also set up a science podcast and radio show called “Talk That Science”. 

The PhD project is funded by the Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) which has received a ‘María de Maeztu’ grant for excelling research institutes in Spain.