Current positions

Doctoral student at ITAS and the “Research Training Group (RTG) 2450 - Tailored Scale-Bridging Approaches to Computational Nanoscience”

Fields of work

Scientific explanation
General philosophy of science

Professional background

since 2025	Scientific staff member and Doctoral student at ITAS
2023 - 2025	Research assistant at the ERC research group “AssemblingLife”, University of Oslo, Norway
2022 - 2024	Master of Philosophy in Philosophy at Univerisity of Oslo, Norway
2017 - 2021	Bachelor of Engineering in Bioengineering and Bachelor of Philosophy in Philosophy at Shenzhen University, China

Publications

2025

Presentations

Oftedal, G.; Xu, J.
An Explanatory Framework for Self-Assembly Processes
2025. 10th Biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA 2025), Groningen, Netherlands, August 27–30, 2025

Xu, J.
Revisiting the Causal-Constitutive Divide in Mechanistic Explanations
2025, July. Biennial meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB 2025), Porto, Portugal, July 20–25, 2025