Due to the generous funding by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund), I'm currently on leave from the University of Graz and have just finished a year of research at the University of Toronto. I received my PhD from King’s College London with a thesis on Leibniz’s metaphysics. My current research focuses on the metaphysics and epistemology of the early modern rationalists. In particular, I am exploring how matter is composed and the extent to which medieval theories can be harnessed to gain a more nuanced picture of rationalists’ accounts. Within this endeavour, I am first and foremost concerned with the question of how rationalist principles, which tend to eliminate material entities as genuine individuals, can be reconciled with the – explicitly and implicitly existing – commitment to such entities. (More on the project can be found here.)