I am Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. I specialise in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of physics.

I am interested in the nature of fundamental physical theories, as well as the idea of emergent physics, and the relationship between these different `levels’ of description. Much of my research has focused on effective field theory, spacetime and quantum gravity.

My current work explores the roles of principles and other non-empirical guides to scientific theory construction and evaluation. In particular, I am looking at the different non-empirical guides involved in the search for quantum gravity.

I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Geneva 2016-2019; before this, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh. I received my PhD from the University of Sydney in 2015. While (and after) finishing my thesis, I spent some time visiting and teaching at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, I completed a BA (Hons) in philosophy and a BSc (Hons) in theoretical physics at Monash University, Clayton.