He did his graduate work at Free University, Berlin, and at the University of Potsdam, Germany, receiving his PhD in Philosophy in 2007. His areas of interest are Philosophy of Language and Environmental Philosophy. He worked on the translation of H.J. Schneider’s recent book, Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning: Imagination and Calculation. He is currently completing the design and installation of a Japanese style sunken courtyard garden at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, Ashland, WI. In his spare time he is working on a new volume of Rilke translations.