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Research Interests
Medical Ethics
I am interested in medical ethics while my focus is on the ethics and theory of digitalization of medicine and healthcare. I do mostly conceptual ethical research on algorithmic decision-making, artificial intelligence, data ethics, and informed consent in an age of digital medicine. Recently, I have expanded my research interests to methodological issues in bioethics, especially non-empirical methods and digital bioethics.
History of Medicine
Some years ago, history of medicine in antiquity was my primary area of interest. I published on questions of historical urology, rheumatology, dermatology, venereology, occupational medicine, as well as on diseases of civilization and affluence. Over time, I extended the chronological frame by also researching the history of medicine of the early modern period. The most recent historical papers cover also the 19th and 20th century. The time will come when I intesify my research on the history medicine again. Occasionally, I publish reviews of books on ancient history.
Academic Work
since 2021
Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine
Hannover Medical School, Germany
2016 – 2021
Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
Ulm University, Germany
2015 – 2016
Research Associate (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Education
2025
Habilitation with a venia legendi in „Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine“ with a work on „Ethische Herausforderungen der Diagnostik mit Künstlicher Intelligenz: Informierte Einwilligung und Explizierbarkeit in der klinischen Anwendung“
Hannover Medical School, Germany
2011 – 2016
PhD in Ancient History with a work on „Freiheit, Herrschaft, Widerstand. Griechische Erinnerungskultur in der Hohen Kaiserzeit (1.-3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.)“
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2014 – 2016
Studies in Protestant Theology (not completed due to moving to Ulm)
Leipzig University, Germany
2005 – 2011
Studies in Ancient History, Journalism and Philosophy
Leipzig University, Germany
Grants
2025/10 – 2027/09
ELSI discourse project „KILEWI: Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences: Debating Research Ethics through Play“, together with Prof. Dr. Tim Kacprowski (TU Braunschweig, PLRI at MHH) and Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken (TU Braunschweig), funded by the German BMBFTR
2025/01 – 2025/02
Philosophy Residency of the Theda Rehbock’s Philosophicum (Estonia) on the topic of „Sustainability as a new principle of biomedical ethics“, together with Dr. Cristian Timmermann
2024/03 – 2025/02
International Symposium on „Digital Bioethics: Methods, Applications, and Ethical Perspectives“; Thematic Week on Ethics of Science: Ethical Dimensions of AI Research and AI in Research funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
2023/10 – 2024/12
Discourse project on AI in the doctor-patient relationship funded by the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture, together with Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Salloch
2023/01
Collaboration Award of the European Association of Centres for Medical Ethics (EACME), together with Dr. Cristian Timmermann, Prof. Dr. Tomasz Żuradzki
2022/11
Research scholarship funded by the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’Antiquité classique
Geneva, Switzerland
2022/08 – 2023/08
Funding for graduate scholarships for Dr. med. candidates on „(Semi-) Automated procedures to find arguments for bioethical analyses, Else Kröner-Promotionskolleg (DigiStrucMed) „Digitale Transformation in der Medizin“, together with Prof. Dr. Dr. Sabine Salloch, Prof. Dr. Wolf-Tilo Balke, and Prof. Dr. Tim Kacprowski
2012 – 2015
PhD scholarship by the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung
Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
PhD scholarship by the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt
Magdeburg, Germany
Membership in Scientific Associations
Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin
Netzwerk Junge Medizinethik (JMED), former member of the coordination team
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