About Me
I’m a Physics & Astronomy MSc graduate with a broad interest in the conceptual foundations of science, especially where physics, philosophy, and metaphysics meet. My thesis, The Disappearance of Time, explored the emergence of time in quantum gravity alongside Kantian reflections on temporality. This work led me to a wider interest in the fundamental concepts through which we understand reality, including space, time, possibility, and being.
My academic background spans the physical sciences and philosophy, with a strong foundation in theoretical physics, logic, and philosophy of science. My current work explores questions in fundamental physics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of nature. I am particularly interested in forms of being that cannot be understood simply as objects, and in the possibility that possibility itself may be understood as a structural dimension of reality. This raises questions not only for physics and metaphysics, but also for how we understand society, knowledge, and education. Alongside these more foundational questions, I continue to work on modern cosmology, including speculative approaches to the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Ultimately, I aim to bring rigorous mathematical and physical reasoning into dialogue with the deeper metaphysical and epistemological questions that have long shaped our understanding of nature and reality.
Research Interests
- Cosmology & Dark Energy: Speculative ΛCDM extensions, super-negative equations of state
- Spacetime Emergence: Algebraic and categorical reconstructions of geometry
- Metaphysics of Non-Objectual Being: Philosophical and physical approaches to forms of being that cannot be adequately understood as objects
- Philosophy of Nature: Possibility as a dimension of a manifold, and its implications for how we understand nature, society, and education
- Philosophy of Physics: Kantian and neo-Kantian frameworks, geometric logic, Wheeler–DeWitt equation
Selected Written Works
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“Being, Structure, and the Ceiling of Objecthood: A Structural Account of Non-Objectual Ontology and Religious Cognition”
[Concept in circulation.]
Develops a structural ontology in which being is understood as non-objectual ontological conditioning, establishing a principled ceiling to objecthood and applying this framework to religious cognition, agency, and reverence. -
“Participatory Monism and the Fifth Dimension: A Categorical Foundation for Social Fields and Cognitive Genesis Theory”
[Concept in circulation.]
Develops a five-dimensional framework in which possibility becomes a geometric dimension, connecting conscious agency, categorical onto-epistemology, collective social dynamics, and cognitive development through symmetry breaking and coarse-graining. -
“Modular non-descent in algebraic quantum field theory and the selection of globally coherent vacuum data”
[Zenodo preprint (DOI), 28 Dec 2025.]
Formulates the obstruction to gluing local modular data across causal diamonds in AQFT using Connes cocycles and Čech-type cohomology, identifying a descent-compatible infrared sector. -
“Cosmic Evolution Driven by a Generalized Logarithmic Dark Energy Equation of State”
[Published in World Scientific: International Journal of Modern Physics D.]
Explores extended dark energy models by connecting scalar field theory with phenomenological parametrizations of the evolving equation of state w(z), analysing their implications for late-time cosmic acceleration. -
“From the Philosopher’s Stone to AI: Epistemologies of the Renaissance and the Digital Age”
[Published in MDPI: Philosophies]
Esoteric structures in Renaissance science and AI development. -
“Psychiatry & Epistemology: A Predictive-Processing Framework”
[Draft in circulation.]
Critique of DSM circularity; continuum-based diagnostic proposals. -
“The Disappearance of Time”
[Available on scripties.uba.uva.nl]
MSc thesis. Investigates the idea that time is not a fundamental concept in physics, drawing on insights from quantum gravity, cosmology, and Kantian philosophy. -
“Esotericism without History: Toward a Metaphysics of the Hidden”
[Draft in circulation.]
Analysis of hidden layers in AI development and parallels to occult traditions.
Creative Work & Side Projects
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Space-Exploration RPG (Lua 5.4)
A text-based game with 2⁴ branching endings, realistic speculative physics, and emergent narratives. -
World of Warcraft Addons (Lua for TBC Classic 2.5.x)
Lightweight Lua programs that make the game more convenient and fun. -
Short Stories:
- “Bimmelman & Floep” — whimsical tale of interdimensional correspondents.
- “The Quantum Computer at the End of the Universe” — cosmological farce.
- Theatrical Piece: Haecceïtistic chairs & the mysterious Velma the Silent.
Ancillary Education, Presentations & Teaching
- "In the Beginning..."-conference. Netherhall House, London, UK — presentation on the lambda CDM cosmology in the context of a conference organized in part by Opus Dei. — (Nov 2015)
- XXVIII Urbino Summer School in Philosophy of Physics. Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, IT — Participant in an intensive week of lectures and discussions on the theme of 'epistemology of quantum gravity', led by Eugenia Colafranceschi, Karen Crowther, Erik Curiel, and Richard Dawid. — (May 2025)
- UPAC Conferences: Spacetime Matters & Philosophy of Astrophysics and Cosmology. Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL — Two and three days of lectures respectively on the foundations of spacetime and cosmology, featuring contributions by Mulder, Giulini, Verde, Galison, and others. — (Sep 2025)
- MSc Thesis Disputation. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL — “The Disappearance of Time”. — (Jun 2025)
- Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry Tutoring.
- English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Latin and Ancient Greek Language Tutoring.