I am a philosophy PhD student at the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science funded by an AHRC/LAHP studentship. I am also currently working on an ARIA-funded project on the Mathematics of Safe AI (Formalising and Mitigating the 'Eliciting Latent Knowledge Problem').

Before starting my PhD, I received both my MA in philosophy and BA in philosophy with a minor in german studies (linguistics and literature) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During my MA I also spent some time as a visiting student at the University of St Andrews (SASP) and the University of Leeds.

I like to think about rationality and agency — epistemic and practical — and about the ways they can come apart. My primary research areas are epistemology (formal and social) and action/decision theory. I'm particularly interested in agents' attitudes towards uncertainty that underpin rational reasoning, both practical and epistemic — the nature and norms of first- and second-order attitudes like intentions, confidence, and acceptance, and how these bear on decision-making, self-predictive probabilities, and temporally extended agency. More on this and the AI project on my research page.
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My work also touches on the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of probability, and metaethics — though I'm independently interested in questions in these areas that go beyond these intersections. Here is my PhilPapers page and here is my CV. 

My first name is pronounced /puːnə/ in IPA. I grew up in Bremen which you might know from this fairytale by the Grimm Brothers. Outside philosophy, I spend my time outdoors, at galleries, or chasing good coffee.