'I may be wrong and you may be right,

and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth.'

Karl R. Popper

Contemporary physicists focus mostly on how successful they are at predicting phenomena and designing new experiments. But physics tells us much more about the world, namely, what the world is made of—even if we cannot directly observe that. Therefore, I'm particularly interested in the following two questions:

• What exists according to our best physical theories? 

• How can we know and understand what exists? 

Since my time as a PhD student, I have been working on the first question, the ontology of physics. I have analyzed what exists according to quantum mechanics, and I have proposed several ideas of how quantum wave-functions describe reality.  Similarly, I analyzed what exists according to classical electrodynamics, in particular the status of the electromagnetic field. 

Statistics and probabilities play a vital role in explanations and predictions in the sciences. I'm, therefore, interested in investigating how and why probabilities can do that. I have been working on a proposal of how probabilities can be objectively derived from physical theory.

I have recently begun working on the second question, the epistemology of physics, where I explore what it means to understand the physical world. To me, the ontology and epistemology of physics are interrelated disciplines, although they are often practiced separately. Combining both will let us better understand what the world is made of but also the epistemic limitations that we face.

The Five Pillars of My Research

Work in Progress

 The Self-Interaction Problem and Its Consequences.

What does it mean to understand Quantum Mechanics? (with Federica Malfatti)

Causal Models in Quantum Mechanics. (with Frederick Eberhardt)

The Harmony Problem in Architecture (with Peter Kifinger)

Explanations and Expectations in Frequentist Interpretations of Probability.