Curriculum Vitae

Academic Employment

• Since Oct 2024: Project Associate and Research Assistant at “FWF-Project Edition Paul Tillich’s Correspondence 1933-1951” at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna
• Mar 2021-April 2024: Project Associate and Research Assistant at "FWF-project Edition Paul Tillich’s Correspondence 1887-1933" at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna
• Mar 2019-Feb 2021: Student Assistant at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna
• May 2017-Feb 2019: Student Project Associate at "FWF-Project, Edition of F.W.J. Schelling’s Writings to the Controversy about Theism (1812)" at the Institute for Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Vienna

Education

• Nov 2019-Feb 2021: Master of Protestant Theology at the University of Vienna; Thesis: "Paul Tillich’s Understanding of Religion and Culture (1919-1925)"
• Mar 2016-Nov 2019: Bachelor of Protestant Theology

Areas of Research

Dissertation Project

• "History and Revelation in Adolf Schlatter, Wilhelm Lütgert, and Paul Tillich" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Danz)

Areas of Interest

• History of Theology and Philosophy in the 19th and 20th Century
• Christology and Doctrine of Creation since the Enlightenment
• Theology and Neurodiversity

• 2024: Winner of the Student Research Prize of the European Society for the Study of Sciences and Theology für einen Essay with an essay on "Autistic Traits in Theology? Reflections on a Theology of Neurodiversity"
• 2023: Funding Program "International Communication" of the Austrian Research Foundation
• 2023: Winner of the Essaycompetition "Off-Topic: Glaubensthemen die zu kurz kommen" with an Essay on “Neurodivergence – Need for Reflection or Search for a New Milieu Theology?”
• 2022: Fellow of the North American Paul Tillich Society
• 2022: Funding Program "International Communication" of the Austrian Research Foundation
• 2022: Winner of the Sponsorship award of the Adolf Schlatter Foundation with a paper on "Adolf Schlatter's Discussion of Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans (1922)"

Professional Associations

• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• Deutsche Paul-Tillich-Gesellschaft (DPTG)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie (DGR)
• European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT)
• European Society for Philosophy of Religion (ESPR)
• North American Paul Tillich Society (NAPTS)

Teaching Experience

• WS 2023/24: Arbeitsweisen Systematischer Theologie (with Dr. Christopher Arnold, Dr. Michael Hackl and Sabine Joanne Wolsink)
• SS 2023: Philosophisches Seminar - Religionsphilosophie Immanuel Kants (with Prof. Dr. Christian Danz)
• WS 2022/23: Dogmatikseminar - Christologie im Kontext des Interreligiösen Dialogs (with Prof. Dr. Christian Danz and Dr. André Ritter)

Publications

Journal Articles

• The Demonic, Sin, and Fundamentalism: A Mutual Illumination of Paul Tillich’s Doctrine of Sin and Thomas Bauer’s Theory of Fundamentalism. In: Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, 50, 1/2 (2024), 3–10.
• On the Idea of a Theology of Neurodiversity: A Tillichian Reading of Ruth Dunster. In: Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, 50, 1/2 (2024), 27–32.
• Christology between Idealism and the Gospel of John: Paul Tillich’s Early Reception of the Fourth Gospel in the Light of Wilhelm Lütgert’s Johannine Christology. In: Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society, 49, 1/2 (2023), 10–15.

Book Reviews

• "Sabrina Söchtig: Absolute Wahrheit und Religion. Der Wahrheitsbegriff des frühen Tillich und seine Beurteilung außerchristlicher Religionen". In: International Yearbook for Tillich Research, No. 15 (2022), 278–282.
• "Samuel Andrew Shearn: Pastor Tillich. The Justification of the Doubter". In: International Yearbook for Tillich Research, No. 15 (2022), 292–296.

Selected Conference Presentations

• "Human Nature, Neurodiversity, and Imago Dei", at the 24th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion "Human Nature and Religion", University of Trento, Department of Humanities (Italy), Sep 7th 2024.
• "Autistic Traits in Theology? Reflections on a Theology of Neurodiversity", at "What Does Theology Do, Actually 4: On loci and Locations in Systematic Theology", Universität Bonn (Germany), May 31st 2024.
• "Wilhelm Lütgerts und Paul Tillichs Theologieverständnis um 1900", at "Der junge Paul Tillich und die Theologie um 1900: Studium – Dissertation – Habilitation", Universität Wien (Austria), Dec 14th 2023.
• "On the Idea of a Theology of Neurodiversity", at the Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society/American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas (USA), Nov 17th 2023.
• "Kausalität und Gottesgedanke: Adolf Schlatters Metaphysik im Kontext seiner Theologie der Wahrnehmung", at "Religionsphilosophie der Gegenwart: Metaphysik" by the German Society for Philosophy of Religion, IUC Dubrovnik (Croatia), June 12th 2023.
• "Christology between Idealism and the Gospel of John: Christ as the Image of the Religious Consciousness in Paul Tillich and Wilhelm Lütgert", at the Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society/American Academy of Religion, Denver (USA), Nov 18th 2022.
• "Is Fundamentalism an Expression of Sin? A Reread of Paul Tillich’s Concept of the Demonic through the Lenses of Thomas Bauer’s Theory of Unitarization", at the Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society/American Academy of Religion, Denver (USA), Nov 18th 2022.
• "Kairos, History, Ethos: A Relecture of Paul Tillich’s and Karl Barth’s Debate about the Relevance of History for Theological Ethics", at the 23rd Conference of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion “God, Time, and Change", Oxford (UK), Sep 5th 2022.
• "Cogitor, ergo cogito, ergo sum: Adolf Schlatters Rezeption der religiösen Philosophie Franz von Baaders", at the Conference of the International Network for Transzendental Philosophy and German Idealism "Mit Gott auf der Flucht. Die Religion in der Klassischen deutschen Philosophie", Neuendettelsau (Germany), June 17th 2022.
• "Dämonie und Fundamentalismus: Paul Tillichs Begriff des Dämonischen im Kontext aktueller Fundamentalismusdebatten", at "Religion und Fundamentalismus" by the German Society for Philosophy of Religion, Dubrovnik (Croatia) June 13th 2022.
• "Natur, Mensch, Geschichte: Zur theologischen Hermeneutik der Wirklichkeit bei Adolf Schlatter", at "Religion und Hermeneutik" by the German Society for Philosophy of Religion, Dubrovnik (Croatia) Oct 26th 2021.