I was born in Graz, the second largest city in Austria. Coming from a non-academic family background, my initial approach to education wasn’t very strategic. I studied at the University of Graz simply because it was my hometown. And since I always had to work during my studies, moving to a different city or country wasn’t on my radar at all. After finishing my master’s degree, I was offered the possibility to write my doctoral thesis as part of a research project at the Department for Philosophy in Graz. In a way, this really came as a surprise: The idea…