I studied classical philology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany, where I was a member of the Munich School of Ancient Philosophy during my doctoral work. Before joining Princeton in 2020, I taught at the New School for Social Research in New York and the University of Cincinnati.

My research interests are in Greek philosophy, literature, and intellectual history, as well as textual criticism. My first book is a text-critical study of Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Text of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Berkeley 2016) in which I reconstruct the Metaphysics texts available to Alexander (second century CE), all older than our earliest manuscripts, and use them to improve the text of the Metaphysics and shed light on its intricate transmission in antiquity. I continue to work on the commentary tradition of Aristotle (JHS 144, 2024) as well as text-critical questions posed by Aristotle’s writings (e.g., CQ 71, 2021). This led to a collaboration with the department-based Logion Project on how machine learning can help in the restoration of Aristotle’s text (see ASNP 17, 2025, co-authored with Johannes Haubold).

My second book is an edition of the Derveni papyrus, offering the text’s first translation into German together with an extensive commentary (Der Papyrus von Derveni, Berlin/Boston 2017). This papyrus contains a fascinating late fifth-century BCE treatise in which an anonymous author interprets allegorically an Orphic theogony using concepts and ideas from various early Greek philosophers. 

My interest in the Derveni author’s method of interpretation and its underlying hermeneutics (CPh 114.2, 2019 and AJP 141.1, 2020) led to my third book project The Ancient Interpretation of Dreams: Early Greek Hermeneutics and Its Sources (Princeton University Press, expected in 2026). Here I examine dream interpretation in Greek literature, philosophy, and scientific writings (from Homer to Aristotle) as a continuous yet innovative and complex hermeneutic practice and as a platform for investigating questions about interpretation, figurative language, and metaphor—before the concept of metaphor.

I teach undergraduate courses in Greek language and literature, classical thought and philosophy, and graduate courses in ancient philosophy and literature. My teaching, like my research, bridges classics and philosophy and I am excited to work with students who are open to this approach.