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Professor Benedikt Löwe is a researcher connecting mathematics, computer science, philosophy and the social sciences. He studied mathematics and philosophy in Hamburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Berkeley. After his PhD, he worked at the universities in Bonn, Münster, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and Cambridge. His research includes mathematical logic, in particular set theory and infinite games, as well as empirical studies of mathematics, in particular with applications to the philosophy of mathematics. Löwe is a member of several academies (the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, the Academia Europaea, and the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg), a Fellow of the International Science Council, and a Vice President of the International Humanities Council. In addition to his role at Lucy Cavendish, he is Fellow at Churchill College, Bye-Fellow at St Edmund's College and Professor at the Universität Hamburg in Germany.