Curriculum vitae

Vera Hoffmann-Kolss

Academic Employment History

Since 08/2019 Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (Extraordinaria), Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern
11/2012 - 07/2019 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Philosophy, University of Köln
10/2018 - 03/2019 Interim Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Köln, covering for Andreas Hüttemann
10/2016 - 07/2017 Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University
10/2015 - 05/2016 Maternity leave
01/2008 - 10/2012 Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University
04/2011 - 09/2011 Interim Professor, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bochum, covering for Albert Newen

Education

06/2010 PhD in Philosophy, University of Bonn
Thesis title: The Metaphysics of Extrinsic Properties
Supervisors: Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz (University of Bonn), Michael Esfeld (University of Lausanne), Albert Newen (University of Bochum)
07/2004 - 12/2007 PhD Student in Philosophy, University of Tübingen, University of Lausanne, and University of Bonn
05/2004 Master's Degree (Magister Artium) in Philosophy, University of Bonn
10/1998 - 05/2004 Student of Philosophy, Statistics, and Psychology, University of Bonn and University of Oxford

External Funding

2025 - 2030 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF): Consolidator Grant for the project Worldly Indeterminacy (1,711,000 CHF)
2024 - 2027 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / German Research Foundation (DFG): Funding of the project Beyond Causal Exclusion: New Challenges for Multi-Level Causal Models, with Thomas Krödel (University of Hamburg), (total amount: ~1,200,000 CHF, own share: 646,000 CHF)
09/2020 - 08/2023 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) / German Research Foundation (DFG): Funding of the project Graded Causation within the research unit Inductive Metaphysics (444,500 CHF)
08/2017 - 07/2020 German Research Foundation (DFG): Funding of the project Properties and Property Individuation within the research unit Inductive Metaphysics (284,700 €)
01/2015 - 12/2018 German-Israeli Foundation (GIF): Funding of the project Causation and Computation in Cognitive Neuroscience, with Jens Harbecke (Witten/Herdecke University) and Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), (total amount: 180,000 €, own share: 60,000 €)
10/2016 - 07/2017 German Research Foundation (DFG): Research fellowship at Rutgers University (~55,000 €)
2010 - 2013 Miscellaneous minor grants and awards (~22,000 € in total)
1998 - 2008 Scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Professional Activities (Selection)

2019 - 2025 Vice President of the German Society for Philosophy of Science
2024 Program Chair of the 9th Annual Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science
2021 - 2024 External member of three search committees for full professorships in Germany
2021 - 2024 Member of five habilitation committees (three in Bern, two external)
2022 Section Chair (Metaphysics and Ontology) at GAP.10: 10th Congress of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy

Refereeing

Journals/Publishers Acta Analytica, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Elements Series), Dialectica, Ergo, Erkenntnis, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Mind, Noûs, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Explorations, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse, Synthese, Theoria
Funding Organizations German Research Foundation (DFG), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)
Conferences I have reviewed conference submissions for the following societies: British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (DGPhil), German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP), Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy (SOPhiA), Schweizerische Philosophische Gesellschaft, Semantics and Philosophy in Europe (SPE), Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS)