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Qualifikationen

2017	Habilitation, Universität Koblenz ("Close Talking: Von Hintergründen sprechen. Hermeneutische, pragmaoistische und phänomenologische Zugänge zu situativer Bedeutung)
1997	Ph.D. in Philosophy on "Humility" (summa cum laude), University of Zurich
1985 – 1990	Bachelor and Master in Philosophy and Comparative Religion, Universities of Vienna, Oxford, Zurich

2017	Project manager: Embodied Critical Thinking. International Research project, Philosophy Institute, University Iceland (under review)
2014 – 2017	Visiting Professor at the Philosophy Department, DePaul University, Chicago
2012 – 2014	Visiting Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
2012	Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department, Columbia University, New York
2010	Fellow, Nietzsche Kolleg Weimar
2007 – 2013	Assistant at the Philosophy Department, ETH
2001 – present	Coordinator and Program-Director “Science and Wisdom“, Center for Continuous Education, University of Zurich
1994 – 2000	Assistant at the Philosophy Department, University of Zurich
1990 – 1999	Journalist and Filmdirector (ARD, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Tagesspiegel Berlin, Kulturmagazin DU)

2013 – 2015	Training in the Elicitation Technique (Micro-Phenomenological Research Method) with Prof. C. Petitmengin in Paris
2004 – 2010	Training in Thinking-at-the–Edge and Focusing (First-and-second person practice to engage and research tacit dimensions of experience and implicit knowledge) with Prof. E. Gendlin in New York
2009 – present	Teaching TAE workshops at the University of Zurich, ETH, Zurich, University of Chicago, DePaul University Chicago, Technion Haifa

Member of the Thinktank „Microphenomenology and Contemplative Experience: Exploring the Intra- and Intersubjective Dynamics of Language and Embodied Experience,“ Interacting Minds Centre, Arhus University, 2016
Research-Member of the Microphenomenology Laboratory of Prof. Claire Petitmengin, 2016
Member of the Peer Mentoring Project “Philosophische Kehrseiten,” University of Zurich, 2009 – 2011.
Founding-member of the “Lehrhaus für das Denken der Religionen Heidelberg,“ 2002 – present.
Initiator and director of the “Interdisciplinary Geyer-Forum,” University of Zurich, 2002 - 2004

Invited teacher at the summer school “Exploring Experience,” Mind and Life Europe, (August 2017)
Visiting Professor at the summer school, DePaul University Chicago, (June- July 2017)
Invited lecturer, Embodiment and Creativity (two workshops), Technion University, Haifa Israel (March 2017)
Speaker, Shifting Grounds, Literature, Culture and Spatial Phenomenologies, Conference, Zurich (November 2016)
Speaker, Nietzsche, Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Conference, London (November 2016)
Invited speaker, Jakob Böhme und die Romantik, Conference, Jena (November 2016)
Invited teacher, Summer School Gender and Philosophy, Iceland (July 2016)
Speaker, Meister Eckhart and Freedom, Annual Conference, Hamburg (March 2016)
Invited speaker, Dewey and the Cognitive Sciences, Conference, Kairo (October 2015)
Invited lecturer at the International Summer School of DAF, Lindau (July, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017)
Speaker at the Mind-and-Life Conference in Boston (October 2015)
Member of the Panel “Special Contributions to Continental Philosophy,” Annual SPEP-Conference (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) in New Orleans (October 2015)
Key-note speaker at the annual Consciousness and Experiential Psychology-Conference, Cambridge, UK (September 2015)