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About the Program

Members of the IAS are scholars teaching and/or conducting research in the field of science ethics at the sponsoring universities Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), University Göttingen (UG) and University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). Through an election process they are assigned to the IAS. Therefore we offer Fellows to conduct their research in a stimulating and interdisciplinary environment. For this, the IAS offers a good working environment through access to the modern research infrastructure of the LUH, UGOE and UMG. In addition, they have access to interdisciplinary research colloquia and can collaborate with other academics to their advantage.

On this page you will find reports about IAS Fellows as well as information about the Fellow Program at IAS.

  • Dr. Ozan Altan Altinok
    • Research Focus

      At the intersection of philosophy of science in practice, hands-on bioethics, and global justice, Dr. Ozan Altan Altinok aims to understand the structures of local and international inequality to provide a future-looking body of knowledge that is more equitable, responsible, and inclusive towards the publics locally and globally within the concepts of health and disease and the branches of evolutionary medicine, public health, and bioethics. 

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      20172021: PhD student, Philosophy, University of Münster 

      20122016: Master of Arts, Philosophy, Middle East Technical University 

      20082012: Bachelor of Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Middle East Technical University 

      Professional 
      Career

      2022Present: Post-Doctorand/Scientist, CELLS Hannover 

      2021: Post-Doctorand/Scientist Project REBIRTH, CELLS Hannover 

      20172021: Doctoral Researcher EvoPAD, University of Münster 

      Awards and Honours

      2023: Flexible Funds (University of Hannover) at the amount of 15000 Euros to fund my own position and various expenses to develop a HEALTH project within the Excellence Cluster (2023) 

      2022: InChange (Individualization in Changing Environments) Research Fellowship for three months from University of Bielefeld to work with Prof. Dr. Marie Kaiser [3750 Euros] on Epistemic Niche for Patient’s Project (2022) 

      20082012: Talented Young Researcher Scholarship Award from Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [10000 Euros] 

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Altinok, O. A. (2023).Conceptual and Ethical Challenges of Evolutionary Medicine. In Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment: Bd. 53. Springer. link.springer.com/book/9783031457654
      2023 Altinok, O. A. (2023). Of looping kinds and unruly objects: the conceptual making of organoids. Molecular Psychology Brain Behavior and Society. doi.org/10.12688/molpsychol.17527.1
      2022 Altinok, O. A. (2022).Darwinize It Two Times : On the Possibilities of Extending Evolutionary Medicine Through New Developments in Evolutionary Theory. (2022). In Azimuth: philosophical coordinates in modern and contemporary age (19. Aufl., Bd. 1, S. 197–210). www.torrossa.com/de/resources/an/5329225
      2021 Selasi, G. N., Altinok, O. A., Kumar, S., Ferrando, V., Kurtz, J., Quante, M., Ludwig, S. & Mellmann, A. (2021). Integrating evolutionary aspects into dual-use discussion: the cases of influenza virus and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Evolution, medicine & public health, 9(1), 383–392. doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoab034
      2019 Altinok, O. A. (2019). Mao’s Marxist negation of Marxism. Asian Studies, 7(1), 75–96. doi.org/10.4312/as.2019.7.1.75-96

       

    • Selected Research Project

      Received view of disease positions the unit of care, unit of diagnosis and unit of intervention to be in parallel if not the same, following a disease essentialism. If the recent developments in biology and particularly evolutionary medicine are followed, we can have a much more socially nuanced and individualized understanding of disease. My aim is to provide the epistemic consequences of such a disease concept when it comes to deal with healthcare, and the epistemic injustices that needs to be dealt with when the essentialist account of disease is in application when it comes to decision making in healthcare. This would create a basis for a) caring for medical research and public health approaches to social groups that have been repressed and deprived of healthcare historically b) following the individualized understanding of contextualizing disease in ways to care for patients who are devoid of care in the essentialist disease understanding.

       

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  • Prof. Dr. Birgit Abels
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Birgit Abels is professor of cultural musicology at University of Göttingen. Her research interests include neo-phenomenological and Pacific Indigenous approaches to the performing arts as well as music-making as an epistemological practice. The geographic foci of her research are the Pacific Ocean (particularly Micronesia), North India and the Southeast Asian Island world. 

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2009–2011: Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands  

      2007–2011: Research fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands  

      2004–2007: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany PhD, dissertation title “Musical Change in Palau, Micronesia, 1908–2006,” Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christian Ahrens. Final mark: summa cum laude 

      2002–2004: Student, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany  

      2001–2002: Student, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, Great Britain  

      1999–2001: Student, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

      Professional 
      Career

      Since 4/2011: Full professor of Cultural Musicology, University of Göttingen 

      2009: Affiliated research fellow, Sabah Museum, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia 

      2009–2011: Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands  

      2007–2011: Research fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

      2008–2011: Lecturer, Department of Musicology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands  

      2007–2008: Lecturer, Department of Islamic Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany  

      2006–2007: Senior Anthropologist, Palau Historic Preservation Program, Ministry of Community and Cultural Affairs, Government of Palau, Palau  

      Memberships Full Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony 
      Awards and Honours  2009: International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS): ICAS Book Prize 2009 Best PhD Award in the field of the Humanities for Sounds of Articulating Identity. Tradition and Transition in the Music of Palau (Berlin 2008) 

       

    • Selected Publications
      2022

      Abels, B. (2022). Music Worlding in Palau. Chanting, Atmospheres, and Meaningfulness. Amsterdam University Press. doi.org/10.5117/978946372512 

      2021

      Abels, B. (2021). Sound Ties, ‘Rising from the Depths of Brine and Regions of Fire Deeper Still.’: Knowing Through Popular Music in the Western Pacific Island World. Journal of World Popular Music8(2) pp. 1–19.

      2021

      Abels, B. (2021) Keeping the Canoe on Course. Performing Arts, Ecologies of Knowledge, and Etak. L’Uomo Società Tradizione Sviluppo11(1) pp. 149–166.

      2018

      Abels, B. (2018). It's Only the Water and the Rocks That Own the Land. Sound Knowledge and Environmental Change in Palau, Western Micronesia.  Asian-European Music Research Journal2 pp. 21–32.

      2010

      Abels, B. (2010) The harmonium in North Indian music ​(1. ed.) New Delhi: New Age Books.

    • Selected Research Project

      Sound Knowledge. Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World. ERC Consolidator Grant 2020–2025 

       
      Sound Knowledge: Alternative Epistemologies of Music in the Western Pacific Island World (Sound Knowledge) aims to rethink music in terms of the procedural knowledge inherent in and specific to music-making by exploring the latter as knowledge practices in Micronesia. This knowledge, formed in the performance of musical practice, may prove to be key to survival in the complex postcolonial predicament of Micronesia. The project will address the issues of climate change, social alienation and postcolonial trauma in specific parts of Micronesia by fleshing out the nature and dynamics of that knowledge both conceptually and ethnographically. The systematic analysis of music as knowledge will identify strategies to foster resilience in the face of these urgent crises. At the same time, it will offer a first-of-its-kind theorization of the procedural knowledge inherent in and specific to music-making. The underlying hypothesis is that knowledge of music is self-referential and forms multilayered connections and ruptures with pasts, presents and futures, surrounding orders of knowledge and other sensory registers in addition to the auditory. Sound Knowledge asks what Western Pacific musical practices know and how they know it, how music-making makes this knowledge operable and how humans mobilize upon this knowledge in coping with their life-world through music. The project, therefore, explores how music functions as an epistemic form that is distinct yet imbricated within its environment, often referred to as the proverbial power of music. 

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer
    • Research Focus

      On the basis of institutional economic questions, a research programme is developing that can be connected beyond the disciplinary boundaries of economics: both to normative jurisprudence and to empirical social psychology as well as to the social and cultural sciences. The core is behavioural governance.

    • Qualification and Career
      Scientific Education Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer studied economics and social sciences in Göttingen, Madison – Wisconsin and Köln, where he graduated in 1992 and finished his doctoral degree in environmental economics in 1996. In 2003, the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany accepted his habilitation on tax simplification and tax evasion.  
      Professional 
      Career

      He received the call for the Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research in Göttingen in 2004. In Göttingen he served as an elected senator on the university board and was elected speaker of the board of the Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences as well as dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences from 20142016. He was speaker of the research committee of the University Senate and is serving on various boards of research institutes (e.g. Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen), transfer institutions (e.g. MBM Science Bridge, SüdniedersachsenStiftung) and funding agencies (BMBF – T!Räume). 

      Prof. Dr. Kilian Bizer is also director of the Institute for Small Business Economics at the University of Göttingen. He coordinated and conducted many research projects on the state, federal and European level on regulatory issues such as innovation policy for SME, responsive regulation and regulation of chemicals as well as regulatory impact assessment studies. Additionally, he is a founding member and – together with Martin Führ – board member of the Society of Institutional Analysis, an interdisciplinary research group of economists, legal scholars, engineers, sociologists and political and natural scientists based in Göttingen and Darmstadt.

      Memberships Member of the Lower Saxony Academy of Sciences Göttingen 

       

    • Selected Publications
      2021 Schneider, Tim; Meub, Lukas; Bizer, Kilian 2021: Consumer Information in a Market for Expert Services: Experimental Evidence. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 94, doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2021.101754
      2021 Alhusen, Harm;  Bennat, Tatjana; Bizer, Kilian; Cantner, Uwe; Horstmann, Elaine; Kalthaus, Martin; Proeger, Till; Sternberg, Rolf; Töpfer, Stefan 2021: A New Measurement Conception for the ‘Doing-Using-Interacting’ Mode of Innovation. Research Policy, 50, 4, doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2021.104214 
      2021 Nils Engelbrecht, Tim-Benjamin Lembcke, Alfred Benedikt Brendel, Kilian Bizer, Lutz M. Kolbe 2021: “The Virtual Online Supermarket: An Open-Source Research Platform for Experimental Consumer Research”. Sustainability, 13(8), 4375; doi.org/10.3390/su13084375 
      2020 Bauknecht, Dierk; Bischoff, Thore Sören; Bizer, Kilian; Führ, Martin; Gailhofer, Peter; Heyen, Dirk Arne; Proeger, Till; von der Leyen, Kaja 2020: Exploring the Pathways: Regulatory Experiments for Sustainable Development – an Interdisciplinary Approach. Journal of Governance and Regulation 9, 3 (2020), 49-71, doi.org/10.22495/jgrv9i3art4  
      2020 Schenten, Julian; Brenig, Mattheus; Führ, Martin; Bizer, Kilian: “Breathing life into consumer rights: smartphone tools facilitating the “right to know” on substances of very high concern in REACH articles”. Environmental Sciences Europe 32,1 (2020), 1-14.

       

    • Selected Research Project

      RENEW - Regulatory Experiments for Sustainable Development in Knowledge Transfer (BMBF: 2022-2024) Comparison of selected European knowledge transfer regions and development of regulatory experiments

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Till Bruckermann
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Till Bruckermann's research focuses on the interfaces between subject-related educational research and science communication. He researches public participation in science in so-called citizen sciences as well as its conditions and effects in promoting an understanding of science.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2016 Dr. sc. ed., Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne

      2013 First state examination for teaching special education, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne

      Professional Career

      since 2021 Professor for teaching-learning research in innovative, extracurricular learning and development spaces, Faculty of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover

      2016–2021 postdoctoral researcher; IPN–Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education, Biology Didactics Department

      2013–2016 Research Associate; Institute for Biology Didactics, University of Cologne

      Memberships

      since 2020 National Association for Research in Science Teaching: A global organization for improving science education through research (NARST)

      since 2015 German Association for the Promotion of Mathematics and Natural Science Education. V. (MNU); European Science Education Research Association (ESERA)

      since 2013 Department of Didactics of Biology (FDdB) in the Association of Biology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine in Germany (VBio)

       

    • Selected Publications

      2023

      Gönner, J. von, Herrmann, T. M., Bruckermann, T., Eichinger, M., Hecker, S., Klan, F., Lorke, J., Richter, A., Sturm, U., Voigt-Heucke, S., Brink, W., Liedtke, C., Premke-Kraus, M., Altmann, C., Bauhus, W., Bengtsson, L., Büermann, A., Dietrich, P., Dörler, D., . . Bonn, A. (2023). The transformative impact of citizen science on science, citizen empowerment and socio-political processes. Social-ecological practice research, 5(1), 11-33. doi.org/10.1007/s42532-022-00136-4
      2023 Greving, H., Bruckermann, T., Schumann, A., Stillfried, M., Börner, K., Hagen, R., Kimmig, S. E., Brandt, M., & Kimmerle, J. (2023). Attitudes toward engagement in citizen science increase self-related, ecological, and motivational outcomes in an urban wildlife project. BioScience, 73(3), 206-219. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad003 
      2022

      Bruckermann, T., Greving, H., Stillfried, M., Schumann, A., Brandt, M., & Harms, U. (2022). I have no problem with collecting data: Engagement profiles differ according to scientific activity in an online community of a citizen science project. PLOS ONE, 17(10), e0275785. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275785 

      2022

      Brandt, M., Groom, Q., Magro, A., Misevic, D., Narraway, C., Bruckermann, T., Beniermann, A., Børsen, T., Pérez, J. G., Meeus, S., Roy, H. E., Sá-Pinto, X., Torres, J. R. & Jenkins, T. (2022d). Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Kompetenz im Bereich der Evolution durch Bürgerwissenschaft. Proceedings of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1980). doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1077

      2021

      Bruckermann, T., Greving, H., Schumann, A., Stillfried, M., Börner, K., Kimmig, S. E., Hagen, R., Brandt, M., & Harms, U. (2021). Knowing about science means loving it? Disentangling cause-effect relationships between knowledge and attitudes towards science in citizen science on urban wildlife ecology. Journal of Research in Science Education, 58(8), 1179-1202. doi.org/10.1002/tea.21697 

    • Selected Research Project

      Scientific findings are increasingly being communicated publicly. However, it is often difficult for many people to interpret and understand these findings. This is also due to the fact that scientific knowledge processes have so far received little attention. The aim of the VideT project is therefore to develop a video-based transfer tool to communicate the empirical scientific research process and test it in school labs.

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  • Prof. Dr. Nikolas Eisentraut
    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      20092014: Law studies at the Free University of Berlin

      20152021: Doctoral studies at the same university

      20182019: Fellow in the Fellow Programme Free Knowledge of Wikimedia Deutschland, the Stifterverband and the Volkswagen Foundation

      Professional 
      Career

      20152021: Research assistant at the Chair of Public Law, in particular Administrative Law (Free University of Berlin)

      20202022: Legal clerkship at the Kammergericht, including a station at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

      Since 2022: Holder of the Junior Professorship for Public Law at Leibniz Universität Hannover and the German Centre for Higher Education and Science Research

      Memberships

      OpenRewi e.V. (Gründungsmitglied und zurzeit Vorstandssprecher)

      Junge Wissenschaft im Öffentlichen Recht e.V.

      Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

      Forum Vergabe e.V.

       

    • Selected Publications
      2022 Open Jurisprudence - Chances of an Open Science Transformation (with Saskia Ebert, Katharina Goldberg, Rhea Nachtigall, Maximilian Petras, Lasse Ramson and Lars Wasnick), in: RuZ (Recht und Zugang) 2022, 50 - 76 (27 pages).
      2020 The digitisation of research and teaching - on the way to a "public" jurisprudence?, in: OdW (Ordnung der Wissenschaft) 2020, pp. 177 - 190 (14 pages).
      2022 On the constitutionality of the de-termination of postdoctoral researchers through § 110 para. 6 p. 2 BerlHG, WissR 55 (2022), 21 - 35 (15 pages).
      2023 OpenRewi - Initiative for an Open Science of Law (with Saskia Ebert), RuZ 2023, 141 - 148 (8 pages).
      2021 Awarding to the Public Sector - Re-municipalisation in Public Procurement Law between Services of General Interest, Competition and the Principle of Freedom to Tender for Own Execution, Duncker & Humblot, Contributions to Public Procurement Law, 2021, 462 pages (also dissertation)
    • Selected Research Project

      Open Access to the Basic Law (OZUG)

      The OZUG project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is transferring the body of knowledge on the Basic Law, the most important body of norms in the Federal Republic of Germany, to open access. Under the direction of Prof Eisentraut, a commentary on the Basic Law is being planned, written and published, the contents of which are to be made freely available and openly licensed via the Internet.
      Based on the realisation of the commentary, a social science accompanying research project led by Prof. Bernd Kleimann (also DZHW) is investigating from the perspective of professional sociology and governance theory which factors in legal scholarship (so far) stand in the way of the open access idea and which conditions are considered adequate for participation in the commentary.

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Simon Fink
    • Research Focus

      Simon Fink works in the field of comparative policy analysis and Europeanisation research, especially in technology and science-related policy fields.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      6/2014 Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Political Science, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, University of Bamberg

      3/2007 Completion of the doctoral procedure, grade: "summa cum laude".

      12/2006 Doctoral thesis "A licence to kill? Embryo research policy in international comparison", submitted 18.12.2006. Doctoral committee: Prof. Dr. Thomas Gehring (first examiner), Prof. Dr. Johannes Schwarze (second examiner), Prof. Dr. Reinhard Zintl.

      since 8/2003 Doctoral studies within the framework of the Research Training Group "Markets and Social Spaces in Europe", University of Bamberg

      1997 - 2003 Studies in Political Science, University of Konstanz. Focus: Policy analysis and evaluation research. Minors: Law and Psychology. Degree: Magister. Final grade: very good

      Professional 
      Career

      Since summer semester 2017 Professor for the Political System of the FRG, University of Göttingen

      Since winter semester 2014/15 Substitute Professor for the Political System of the FRG, University of Göttingen

      Winter Semester 2012/13 Substitute Professor of Political Systems and Comparative Government, University of Hanover

      WS 2009 to WS 2016/17 Assistant at the Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Bamberg.

      November 2001-2011 Founding member of and consultant for EuroSoc, Advisory Group on European Issues: conception and implementation of training packages on European policies, among others for the FHVR Berlin, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Federal Press Office and the European Parliament or theProject VoicE. Since 2011 member of the scientific advisory board of EuroSoc.

      Summer semester 2007-2009 Research assistant (postdoc) in the Research Training Group "Markets and Social Spaces in Europe", University of Bamberg

      Since winter semester 2003, doctoral studies in the Research Training Group "Markets and Social Spaces in Europe" at the University of Bamberg. Doctoral thesis: Governing Biotechnology. A Comparison of Biotechnology Regulations in 21 OECD Countries

      Memberships German Political Science Association (DVPW), Speaker of the Section "Policy Analysis and Administrative Science

       

    • Selected Research Project

      The project "Public participation in grid expansion" analyses the role of public participation in the expansion of the German electricity grids. In this policy area, scientific forecasts on energy consumption and generation and the resulting expansion requirements meet the legitimate interests of citizens to have a say in specific projects.

       

  • Prof. Dr. Marian Füssel
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Marian Füssel's research focuses on the history of knowledge of the university and the humanities, its institutional mechanisms, norms, values, practices and actors b) the cultural history of organised violence, war and military history c) historical theory and the history of historiography d) with the methodological-theoretical approaches of historical praxeology, discourse analysis and actor-network theory (ANT).

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2004: PhD, Modern and Contemporary History, "Gelehrtenkultur als symbolische Praxis. Rang, Ritual und Konflikt, Universität der Frühen Neuzeit, Darmstadt 2006". (honoured by H-Soz-Kult as the "Historical Book of the Year 2008 in the category Early Modern Period"), University of Münster, Germany

      2000-2004: Research assistant, Collaborative Research Centre 496 "Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution", University of Münster

      2000: M.A., Modern and Contemporary History, University of Münster

      1995-2000: Studies, Modern History, Sociology and Philosophy, University of Münster

      Professional Career

      Since 2010 (WS): Professor (W3) of Early Modern History with special emphasis on the History of Science, University Göttingen (UG), Germany

      2010 (SuSe): Offer of a W3 professorship for History of Science, Martin Luther University Halle/Saale (declined)

      2008-2010 ( WS): Heyne Junior Professor of Early Modern History with a focus on non-European history, UG

      2008 (SuSe): Junior Professor of Cultural History at the University of Giessen, Germany

      2004-2008: Assistant, Chair of Early Modern History, Department of History, University of Münster, Germany

      Memberships

      Historical Commission of Lower Saxony

      Society for the History of Universities and Science

      Military History Working Group

      Working Group Military and Society in the Early Modern Period e. V.

      German Society for the Study of the 18th Century

      Network for Masonic Research

      Centre for Theory and Methodology of Cultural Studies, UG

      Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, UG

       

    • Selected Publications
      2022 Disciplined sciences? Differentiation of Academic Subjects at 18th and 19th Century German Universities, in: Historical Studies on Central Europe 2, no. 2 (2022), S. 149-178.
      2022 Lecture Hall Life. On the Practical History of the Lecture in the 18th Century, in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 Heft 3 (2022), pp. 441-478.
      2021 Together with Tim Neu (ed.): Akteur-Netzwerk Theorie und Geschichtswissenschaft, Paderborn 2021.
      2021 Knowledge. Concepts, Practices, Processes, Frankfurt a. M. 2021.
      2019 The Price of Glory. A World History of the Seven Years' War 1756-1763, Munich 2019 (2nd ed. 2020).

      Selected Publications

      2022 Disciplined sciences? Differentiation of Academic Subjects at 18th and 19th Century German Universities, in: Historical Studies on Central Europe 2, no. 2 (2022), S. 149-178.
      2022 Lecture Hall Life. On the Practical History of the Lecture in the 18th Century, in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 49 Heft 3 (2022), pp. 441-478.
      2021 Together with Tim Neu (ed.): Akteur-Netzwerk Theorie und Geschichtswissenschaft, Paderborn 2021.
      2021 Knowledge. Concepts, Practices, Processes, Frankfurt a. M. 2021.
      2019 The Price of Glory. A World History of the Seven Years' War 1756-1763, Munich 2019 (2nd ed. 2020).
    • Selected Research Project

      Research into the genealogy of the formation of a moral economy of science in the early modern period is a long-term project. How did the set of rules that we now call good scientific practice develop during the formation phase of science? In order to reconstruct these processes since the 17th century, the focus is on internal scientific norms and codes of honour, informal sanctions as well as deviant actors (charlatans, pedants) and practices (plagiarism, fame-seeking, disputes). Outside academia, the image of the scholar in society, discourses and practices of anti-academism or academic policy (university closures) are analysed.

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld
    • Research Focus

      Philosophy of Economics, History of Economics, Philosophy of Social Sciences, Bibliometric Methods.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2007-2013: PhD in History and Philosophy of Economics, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany

      2006-2007: Master of Science in Philosophy of Social Sciences, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

      1999-2006: Diploma in Economics, Technical University of Berlin and Free University of Berlin, Germany

      Professional 
      Career

      2023: Professor of Philosophy and History of Economics, University of Hannover, Germany

      2017-2023: Assistant Professor, Chair of Social Theory and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

      2022: Interim Professor, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Lucerne, Switzerland

      2016-2017: Interim Professor, Chair of Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, University of Munich (LMU), Germany

      2013-2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chair of Philosophy of Science, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU

      2012-2013: Junior Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University, United States

      2011-2012: Predoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

      Memberships

      2022: Member of the Executive Committee, European Society for the History of Economic Thought Thought

      2022: Board Member of the International Network of Economic Methodology Methodology

      2021: Member of the Steering Committee, European Society for the Philosophy of Science

      2020: Council Member, European Society for the History of Economic Thought Thought

      2019: Member of the Editorial Board, Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Œconomia-
      History, Methodology, Philosophy, De Gruyter Book Series: History of Philosophy and Science

      Awards and Honours

      2022: ERC Starting Grant, European Research Council

      2021: Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize; Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Germany (10,000 EUR)

      2014: Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize; History of Economics Society, United States (500 US dollars)

      2014: Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize; Witten University Society, Germany

      2014: Young Scholar Award; History of Economics Society, United States

       

    • Selected Publications
       

      Forthcoming. Conversations on Rational Choice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

      2023

      Boumans, M., Herfeld, C. (2023). Progress in Economics. In New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress. New York and London: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003165859

      2023

      Quack, A. & Herfeld, C. (2023). The role of narratives in transferring rational choice models into political science. History of Political Economy, 55(3), 549–576. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-10438939

      2023

      Doehne, M. & Herfeld, C. (2023). How academic opinion leaders shape scientific ideas: An acknowledgment analysis. Scientometrics, 128(4), 2507–2533. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04623-z

      2019

      Herfeld, C. & Doehne, M. (2019). The Diffusion of Scientific Innovations: a role typology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 77, 64–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.12.001

    • Selected Research Project

      Prof. Dr. Catherine Herfeld conducts research into the history and philosophy of economics. She is currently particularly interested in the questions of why and how models are transferred across different fields and how such model transfers can lead to scientific progress. She is investigating these questions in a project entitled MODEL TRANSFER, which is funded by an ERC Starting Grant. Together with a team, she is investigating these questions with a particular focus on model transfer in economics, using a variety of methods from philosophy, sociology and the history of science. She combines traditional approaches - such as case studies and qualitative methods from the history of science - with quantitative-empirical methods. She is also interested in questions relating to the gender gap in philosophy.

       

  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Hönnige
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Christoph Hönnige is Chair for Comparative and German Politics at the Leibniz University Hanover. His main research areas are Higher Education Politics, Legislative Politics and Judicial Politics. He is interested in the effects of institutions on behavior, the use of expertise and attitudes of citizens towards institutions and processes.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2001: BA and MA Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany

      2007: PhD / Dr. rer. pol., University of Potsdam, Germany

      Scientific Positions

      Since 2015: Head of the Institute of Political Science, University of Hannover (LUH), Germany

      Since 2014: Full professor for Comparative and German Politics (W3), LUH

      2013–2014: Head of the Institute of Political Science, University of Göttingen (UGOE), Germany

      2012–2014: Board member Göttinger Graduiertenschule Gesellschaftswissenschaften, UGOE

      2011–2014: Associate Professor for German Politics (W2), UGOE

      2010–2011: Professor pro tempore for Comparative Politics (W3), University of Greifswald, Germany

      2010: Professor pro tempore for German Politics (W2), UGOE

      2009: Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Bordeaux

      2008–2011: Assistant Professor for Comparative and German Politics (W1), University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

      2007–2008: Consultant Public Management, Horváth & Partners Consultants Berlin, Germany

      2002–2007: Lecturer (BAT IIa/E13, 65-100%), Chair for Comparative Politics, University of Potsdam, Germany

      Membership

      2009–2016: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Law and Courts, Founder and Convener

      Awards and Honours     2010–2013: Member of the Enquete Commission 5/2: "Local and state administration - citizen-centred, effective and future-proof - Brandenburg 2020" of the Brandenburg State Parliament in the 5th electoral term (2009 - 2013)

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023

      Cleophas, C., Hönnige, C., Meisel, F. & Meyer, P. (2023). Who’s cheating? Mining patterns of collusion from text and events in online exams. Informs Transactions on Education, 23(2), 84–94. doi.org/10.1287/ited.2021.0260

      2021

      Daoust, J., Bélanger, É., Dassonneville, R., Lachapelle, É., Nadeau, R., Becher, M., Brouard, S., Foucault, M., Hönnige, C. & Stegmueller, D. (2021). A guilt-free strategy increases self-reported non-compliance with COVID-19 preventive measures: experimental evidence from 12 countries. PLOS ONE, 16(4), e0249914. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249914

      2021

      Brouard, S., Vasilopoulos, P., Gorohouna, S., Hönnige, C. & Kerrouche, É. (2021). Emotions and voting behavior in self-determination referendums: the case of New Caledonia in 2018. Electoral Studies, 69, 102251. doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102251

      2021

      Sternberg, S., Brouard, S. & Hönnige, C. (2021). The legitimacy‐conferring capacity of Constitutional Courts: Evidence from a Comparative Survey experiment1. European Journal of Political Research, 61(4), 973–996. doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12480

      2020

      Hönnige, C., Nyhuis, D., Meyer, P., Köker, P. & Shikano, S. (2020). Dominating the debate: visibility bias and mentions of British MPs in newspaper reporting on Brexit. Political research exchange, 2(1), 1788955. doi.org/10.1080/2474736x.2020.1788955

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe's research interests include the interface between health and research ethics, bioethics, health law and regenerative medicine. In addition, he deals with the ethical, legal and social aspects of regenerative medicine, human biomaterials, genetics and genomics, and animal experimentation.

       

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2016: Bar Training BPP Law School, BPP University, London, United Kingdom

      2008: PhD (Dr. iur.), Faculty of Law, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Germany

      2000: LL.B in English and German Law, Nottingham Law School, Dept. of Academic Legal Studies, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom

      1999: Diploma in European Technology and Commercial Law (Erasmus), Faculty of Law, University of Erlangen Nuremberg, Germany

      Professional Career

      Since 2023: Dean of Research at the Faculty of Philosophy, LUH

      Since 2017: Professor of Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUH

      2017–2021: Dean of Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUH

      2013–2017: Professor for Regulation in the Life Sciences (W2, tenure track), Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUH

      2014–2015: Visiting Professor for English Medical Law, Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, Austria

      2012–2015: Visiting Professor for International Biotechnology Law, European School of Molecular Medicine (SEMM), Milan, Italy

      2011–2013: Professor for Regulation in the Life Sciences (W1 Junior Professorship), LUH

      2010–2012: Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies and Magdalen College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

      2008–2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science, LUH

      2008–2009: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Legal Informatics, Faculty of Law, LUH

      2004–2008: Lecturer in English for Law, Center for Applied Linguistics, LUH

      2003–2004: Researcher, Dept. for Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany

      2001–2003: Staff scientist, legal advisor, UMG

      Memberships

      Since 2001: The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn

      Since 2017: Associate Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, United Kingdom

      Since 2008: European Association of Health Law, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

      Since 2010: Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, United Kingdom

      2005–2016: Member of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Göttingen, Germany

    • Selected Publications
      2021

      Kwisda, K., Cantz, T. & Hoppe, N. (2021). Regulatory and intellectual property conundrums surrounding xenotransplantation. Nature Biotechnology, 39(7), 796–798. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00976-7

      2020

      Erikainen, S., Friesen, P., Rand, L., Jongsma, K., Dunn, M., Sorbie, A., McCoy, M. S., Bell, J., Burgess, M., Chen, H., Chico, V., Cunningham‐Burley, S., Darbyshire, J., Dawson, R., Evans, A., Fahy, N., Finlay, T., Frith, L., Goldenberg, A. J., . . . Sheehan, M. (2020). Public involvement in the governance of population-level biomedical research: unresolved questions and future directions. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47(7), 522–525. https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106530

      2016

      Hoppe, N. (2016). Privacy laws and biobanking in Germany. Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, 44(1), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073110516644188

      2015

      Webborn, N., Williams, A. G., McNamee, M., Bouchard, C., Pitsiladis, Y., Ahmetov, I. I., Ashley, E. A., Byrne, N. M., Camporesi, S., Collins, M., Dijkstra, P., Eynon, N., Fuku, N., Garton, F., Hoppe, N., Holm, S., Kaye, J., Klissouras, V., Lucía, A., . . . Wang, G. (2015). Direct-to-consumer genetic testing for predicting sports performance and talent identification: Consensus statement. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 49(23), 1486–1491. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2015-095343

      2012

      Kaye, J., Meslin, E. M., Knoppers, B. M., Juengst, E. T., Deschênes, M., Cambon‐Thomsen, A., Chalmers, D., De Vries, J., Edwards, K., Hoppe, N., Kent, A., Adebamowo, C., Marshall, P. A. & Kato, K. (2012). ELSI 2.0 for Genomics and Society. Science, 336(6082), 673–674. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1218015

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Anna Kosmützky
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Anna Kosmützky is a sociologist and professor specializing in the "Methodology of Higher Education and Science Research" at the Leibniz Center of Science and Society (LCSS) at Leibniz University Hanover. Her research expertise encompasses higher education research, sociology of science, and organization studies, with a particular focus on research methodology, especially in the realm of comparative research.

      Her research expertise is in higher education research, sociology of science, and organization studies and is also focused on the research methodology, in particular, comparative research. Currently, she investigates the dynamics and consequences of competition in science and higher education. This research includes an exploration of the intricate interplay between competition and collaboration, with a specific emphasis on the institutional and organizational changes occurring within higher education and research institutions. Additionally, she studies the dynamics of globalization processes in higher education and is interested in spatial dimensions of the university as an (global) institution.

      Among her most recent research projects are "Competitive Positioning of Universities and their Members" (DFG 2021-2024), a part of the DFG research group "Multiple Competition,"Among her most recent research projects are "Competitive Positioning of Universities and their Members" (DFG 2021-2024), a part of the DFG research group "Multiple Competition," and "Knowledge Transfer on Cooperation Paths - Subproject Types, Contextual Conditions, and Potential for Interventions" (BMBF, 2022-2025). Anna Kosmützky is also member of the EU Cost Action "Rising nationalisms, shifting geopolitics, and the future of European higher education/research openness" (CA22121). She is part of the managing committee and leads a working group of the action.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2017: Habilitation in Sociology (Habil.), University of Kassel (Habilitation thesis: Status, Challenges and Perspectives of International Comparative Social Science Research: The Case of Higher Education Research)

      2010: Dissertation in Sociology (Dr Phil.), University of Bielefeld (Dissertation: From the organised institution to the institutionalised organisation. An analysis of guiding principles of German universities)

      2002: Diploma in Sociology (Dipl. Soz.), University of Bielefeld (Diploma thesis: Totenglocke im Elfenbeinturm? An analysis of private universities in Germany from a discourse-analytical perspective)

      Professional Career

      Since 2018: Professor for Methodology of Higher Education and Science Studies (W3/full), Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Leibniz Center for Science and Society (LCSS)

      20232024: Visiting Scholar at the School of Education, Stanford University

      20172017: Visiting Researcher at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

      20132013: Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE)

      20122017: Senior Researcher, International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel: Head of the research area "Change of Knowledge"

      20092011: Senior Researcher in the DFG project "Change in Networks and Change in Networks, Higher Education and Knowledge Societies" (CINHEKS), International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER), University of Kassel

      20062008: Academic Coordinator and Assistant to the Dean of Studies and Teaching, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

      20032006: Doctoral scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group "Towards a Knowledge Society", Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University

      20022003: Junior researcher in the BMBF project "International Visibility of Mechanical Engineering Research in Germany", Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT), Bielefeld University

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023

      Kosmützky, A. & Krücken, G. (2023). Governing Research: New forms of competition and cooperation in Academia. In Research in the sociology of organizations (S. 31–57). https://doi.org/10.1108/s0733-558x20230000086002

      2020

      Kosmützky, A., Nokkala, T. & Diogo, S. (2020). Between context and comparability: Exploring new solutions for a familiar methodological challenge in qualitative comparative research. Higher Education Quarterly, 74(2), 176–192. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12255

      2018

      Kosmützky, A. (2018). A two-sided medal: on the complexity of international comparative and collaborative team research. Higher Education Quarterly, 72(4), 314–331. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12156

      2016

      Kosmützky, A. & Putty, R. (2015). Transcending borders and traversing boundaries. Journal of Studies in International Education, 20(1), 8–33. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315315604719

      2015

      Kosmützky, A. & Krücken, G. (2015). Sameness and difference. International Studies of Management and Organization, 45(2), 137–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2015.1006013

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Dagmar Krefting
    • Research Focus

      Collaboration platforms for biomedical research.

      Prof. Dr Krefting's research focuses on the cross-institutional sharing and analysis of multidimensional biosignal recordings such as ECG and EEG, as well as sensor data collected via wearables. Another focus is on the safety, reproducibility and reliability of research environments, including deep learning methods.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2009: Certificate "Medical Informatics" (equivalent to specialist recognition) of the German Informatics Society (GI) and German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS)

      2008–2009: Continuing Education Health Care Manager in the qualification program of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

      2003: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics, University of Göttingen (UGOE)

      1995: Diploma in Physics, UGOE

      1991–1999: Study of Physics and Chemistry, UGOE

      Professional Career

      Since 2021: Director (W3) of the Department of Medical Informatics, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany

      2019–2021: Acting Head of the Department of Medical Informatics, UMG

      2016–2021: Head of the Center for Biomedical Image and Information Processing (CBMI), HTW Berlin

      2015: Visiting Professor, Sleep Center, People's Hospital, Beijing, China

      2011–2021: Professor for Computer Science (W2), Berlin University of Applied Sciences (HTW Berlin)

      2004–2011: Postdoc, Department of Medical Informatics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

      2004: Postdoc, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Fritz Haber Institute Berlin

      1999–2003: Research Associate, Third Institute of Physics, UGOE

      Membership

      Since 2020: Head of the working group Medical Image and Signal Processing - joint working group of the Department of Med. Informatics and Med. Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (GMDS)

      Since 2019: Member DICOM working group WG-32

      2019: Member of the GWDG awarding committee

      2019: Guest Editor, Future Generation Computer Systems

      Since 2018: Founding member and head of the Cybersecurity Lab- HTW Berlin

      Since 2017: Member IEEE Standards Association Big Data Governance and Metadata-Management

      2017: Guest Editor, Concurrency Computat. Pract. Experiments

      2017–2020: Member Selection Committee DIGITAL (Berlin Equal Opportunity Program)

      Since 2016: Founding Member of the Center for Biomedical Imaging and Processing, HTW Berlin

      Since 2014: Member of the eHealth Program Committee

      Since 2013: Founding member of the Health Research Cluster, HTW Berlin

      Since 2012: Member of the Committee for Research and Early Career HTW Berlin

      Since 2010: Member of Program Committee Biosignals

      Since 2010: Member of Program Committee International Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science

      Since 2009: Member of Program Committee CCGrid-Health/CCGrid-Life

      2009–2015: Member of Program Committee Distributed Medical Imagingon MICCAI

      2006–2009: Member of the National Executive Board DGrid

      2005–2009: Member of Program Committee Healthgrid

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023

      Du Crest, A., Valkovic, M., Ariew, A., Desmond, H., Huneman, P. & Reydon, T.A.C. (Eds): Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism, Cham: Springer.

      2023

      Reydon, T.A.C.: ‘The proper role of history in evolutionary explanations’, Noûs 57: 162-187.

      2023

      Ereshefsky, M. & Reydon, T.A.C.: ‘The Grounded Functionality Account of natural kinds’, in: Bausman, W.C., Baxter, J.K. & Lean, O.M. (Eds): From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. 236-265.

      2022

      Reydon, T.A.C.: ‘Deflating the de-extinction debates: Dominance and artifactuality are not the problem’, Ethics, Policy & Environment 25: 113-115.

      2022

      Reydon, T.A.C. & Ereshefsky, M.: ‘How to incorporate non-epistemic values into a theory of classification’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12: article #4.

      2022

      Cuypers, V., Reydon, T.A.C. & Artois, T.: ‘Deceiving insects, deceiving taxonomists? Making theoretical sense of taxonomic disagreement in the European orchid genus Ophrys’, Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 56: article #125686.

    External Websites

  • Dr. Daniel Kurzawe
    • Research Focus

      Dr. Daniel Kurzawe is Deputy Head of Research and Development at the Göttingen State and University Library (University of Göttingen). His research focuses on the analysis and computer-based modelling of scientific and social processes. He also researches and develops methods for the innovative and sustainable use of digital knowledge and corresponding infrastructures.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education Dr Kurzawe studied logic and philosophy of science, philosophy and computational linguistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, where he completed his doctorate on the topic of the dynamics of research and society. In addition to his doctorate, he was involved in a variety of national and international projects with a focus on digital humanities and research infrastructures. In his position at the State and University Library, he now designs and implements projects in the border area between science and infrastructure, with the aim of promoting digital science and enabling new methods.
      Memberships

      As part of the Munich Simulation Group (http://munich-simulation-group.org/), he conducts research on the application of computer simulations in the humanities and social sciences. 

      He is a member of the Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS) centre (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/634473.html), where he is involved in campus-wide collaboration in the field of data science. 

      In the Society for Biological Data (GFBio) .e.V. (https://www.gfbio.org/gfbio_ev/) he is involved in networking data centres and research institutions for biological data.

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Kurzawe, D. (2023). The Dynamics of Research and Society: Simulations of scientific processes. Hildesheim Munich: Olms University Library Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. https://doi.org/10.5282/edoc.29687
      2020 Herrmann, F., & Kurzawe, D. (2020). Discuss Data: Community-centred approach to research data management in the humanities and social sciences. Building Blocks for Research Data Management, (2), 56-64. https://doi.org/10.17192/bfdm.2020.2.8277
      2018

      Balzer, W., Eleftheriadis, A. & Kurzawe, D. (2018). Digital Humanities and Hermeneutics. Philosophical Inquiry, 42(3), 103–119. https://doi.org/10.5840/philinquiry2018423/415

      2017 Bingert, S., Buddenbohm, S., Engelhardt, C. & Kurzawe, D. (2017). Challenges and perspectives for a humanities research data centre. Library Research And Practice, 41(3). https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2017-0036
      2016

      Bingert, S., Buddenbohm, S. & Kurzawe, D. (2016). Referencing of complex software environments as representations of research data. International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 58–68. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-649-1-58

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Cornelia Lee-Thedieck
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Lee-Thedieck's department researches how biological, chemical and physical properties of the environment influence the behaviour of human cells. She uses the knowledge gained to develop innovative synthetic biomaterials that control the growth and differentiation of cells. These materials are used in new cell culture systems to explore basic cell interactions and develop models for diseases. These models can be used for patient-specific test systems or drug testing, for example.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2004–2007: Doctoral thesis (Dr. rer. nat.), Centre for Medical Research (ZMF) of the University Hospital Tübingen with Prof. Dr. Klein and Prof. Dr. Rammensee

      1998–2004: Study of Biochemistry (Diploma), Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

      Professional Carreer

      Since 2018: Professor of Cell Biology at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), Germany

      2012–2018: Junior Research Group Leader "Stem Cell-Material Interactions" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus North, Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG)

      2009–2012: Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly MPI for Metals Research) in Stuttgart with Prof Dr Spatz

      2007–2009: Post Doc at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems with Prof Dr Spatz

      Memberships

      Braunschweig Scientific Society

      German Society for Biomaterials (DGBM)

      German Society for Materials Science (DGM)

       

    • Selected Publications
      2022

      Zippel S, Dilger N, Chatterjee C, Raic A, Brenner-Weiß G, Schadzek P, Rapp BE, Lee-Thedieck C* (2022). A parallelized, perfused 3D triculture model of leukemia for in vitro drug testing of chemotherapeutics. Biofabrication. 14: 035011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/ac6a7e

      2021

      Lee-Thedieck C*, Schertl P, Klein G (2021). The extracellular matrix of hematopoietic stem cell niches. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 181:114069. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.114069

      2018

      Raic A, Riedel S, Kemmling E, Bieback K, Overhage J, Lee-Thedieck C* (2018). Biomimetic 3D in vitro model of biofilm triggered osteomyelitis for investigating hematopoiesis during bone marrow infections. Acta Biomaterialia. 73: 250-262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2018.04.024

      2018

      Rödling L, Volz E, Raic A, Brändle K, Franzreb M, Lee-Thedieck C* (2018). Magnetic macroporous hydrogels as a novel approach for perfused stem cell culture in 3D scaffolds via contactless motion control. Adv Healthc Mater. 7: 1701403. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201701403

      Selected Publications

      2022

      Zippel S, Dilger N, Chatterjee C, Raic A, Brenner-Weiß G, Schadzek P, Rapp BE, Lee-Thedieck C* (2022). A parallelized, perfused 3D triculture model of leukemia for in vitro drug testing of chemotherapeutics. Biofabrication. 14: 035011. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1758-5090/ac6a7e

      2021

      Lee-Thedieck C*, Schertl P, Klein G (2021). The extracellular matrix of hematopoietic stem cell niches. Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews. 181:114069. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addr.2021.114069

      2018

      Raic A, Riedel S, Kemmling E, Bieback K, Overhage J, Lee-Thedieck C* (2018). Biomimetic 3D in vitro model of biofilm triggered osteomyelitis for investigating hematopoiesis during bone marrow infections. Acta Biomaterialia. 73: 250-262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2018.04.024

      2018

      Rödling L, Volz E, Raic A, Brändle K, Franzreb M, Lee-Thedieck C* (2018). Magnetic macroporous hydrogels as a novel approach for perfused stem cell culture in 3D scaffolds via contactless motion control. Adv Healthc Mater. 7: 1701403. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201701403

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  • Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn's research areas are philosophical problems of artificial intelligence, robot and machine ethics. Topics that concern her include machines as (moral) actors, affective computing and artificial emotions, emotional and social human-machine interaction, the ethical evaluation of AI, robots and assistance systems, simulation and virtual reality.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2003–2010: Habilitation, venia legendi for the subject of philosophy in its entirety

      1999–2003: Doctorate, (grade: summa cum laude), Philosophy, University of Tübingen

      1991–1998: Studies in Philosophy, German Studies and Political Science, University of Tübingen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Degree: State Examination (Grade: 1.0)

      Professional Career

      2019 (SuSe): Holder of the Chair of Philosophy with a focus on theoretical philosophy, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (UGOE), Germany

      2012–2019: Holder of the Chair of Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Technology, Director of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Stuttgart

      2011 (WS): Deputy Chair, Institute of Philosophy, University of Stuttgart (shortly after appointment)

      2011 (SuSe): Deputy Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen

      2010 (HS): Deputy Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich

      2010 (SuSe): Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin

      2008: Research stay, Collège de France, Institut Jean Nicod for Cognitive Sciences, Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Paris

      2007–2008: Research stay; Centre of Affective Sciences, Feodor-Lynen Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Geneva

      2003–2012: Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen

      2001–2003: Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen

      Memberships

      Since 2022: Member, DFG network "AI and Responsibility"

      Since 2019: Member of the Supervisory Board, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

      Since 2016: Member of the "Learning Systems" platform - Germany's platform for artificial intelligence

      2018–2021: Member of the advisory board of the project "Orientation towards the common good in the digital age - transformation narratives between planetary boundaries and artificial intelligence"

      2017–2021: Member of the board of the German Philosophical Society (DG Phil)

      2016–2017: Member of the programme committee for the 20th conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT)

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Three Ethical Arguments against Autonomous Weapon Systems. In: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, hg. von R. Hakli, P. Mäkelä, J. Seibt 2023, 24-34 .
      2023 Is Empathy with Robots Morally Relevant?, in: Emotional Machines – New Perspectives on Affective Computing and Emotional Human-Machine Interaction, hg. von C. Misselhorn, T. Poljansek und T. Störzinger, Wiesbaden 2023 (in print).
      2022 Artificial Moral Agents. Conceptual Issues and Ethical Controversy, in: The Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, hg. von S. Voeneky et al., Cambridge 2022, 31-49 (open access). 
      2022 Fundamental Questions of Machine Ethics, Reclam: Stuttgart 2018 (5th edition 2022).
      2021 Artificial Intelligence and Empathy. On Life with Emotion Recognition, Sex Robots & Co, Reclam: Ditzingen 2021.
    • Selected research project

      The concept of human dignity in the context of intercultural ethics of artificial intelligence.

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Nehring
    • Research Focus

      Andreas Nehring is a professor of science didactics with a focus on chemistry didactics. He conducts research on students' understanding of science, inclusive science education and data-supported teaching and learning using artificial intelligence (AI) methods.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2003-2009: Studied chemistry and French as a secondary school teacher at the Technical University of Berlin and Humboldt University of Berlin

      2014: Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Humboldt University of Berlin: Scientific thinking and working methods in chemistry. A competence-oriented model and test development for the area of knowledge acquisition

      Professional Career

      2023: Visiting researcher at the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada, Prof Dr Patrice Potvin

      2018 - current: W2-Professorship for Didactics of Natural Sciences, University of Hannover

      2018: Visiting researcher at Georgia State University (USA), Prof Renée Schwartz, PhD and at the University of North Carolina (USA) Prof Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Ph.D.

      2015-2018: W1-Professorship for Chemistry Didactics, University of Hannover

      2013-2015: Post-doc at the University of Potsdam

      2009-2013: PhD student at the Humboldt University of Berlin

      2023: Visiting researcher at the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada, Prof Dr Patrice Potvin

      2018 - current: W2-Professorship for Didactics of Natural Sciences, University of Hannover

      2018: Visiting researcher at Georgia State University (USA), Prof Renée Schwartz, PhD and at the University of North Carolina (USA) Prof Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Ph.D.

      2015-2018: W1-Professorship for Chemistry Didactics, University of Hannover

      2013-2015: Post-doc at the University of Potsdam

      2009-2013: PhD student at the Humboldt University of Berlin

      Memberships

      from 2021 until today: Editorial Board Journal of Research in Science Teaching (JRST)

      from 2021 until today: International Journal of Science Education (IJSE)

      from 2018 until today: Progress in Science Education (PriSE)

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Heinitz, B., & Nehring, A. (2023). Instructional quality in science teacher education: comparing evaluations by chemistry pre-service teachers and their advisors. International Journal of Science Education, May, 1–21. doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2023.2213382
      2022 Reith, M., & Nehring, A. (2022). Fostering Scientific Reasoning Competencies in Undergraduate Laboratories Using “Classical” Kinetics Experiments. Journal of Chemical Education, 99(12), 3915–3922. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00340.OA.
      2022 Schiefer, J., Edelsbrunner, P. A., Bernholt, A., Kampa, N., & Nehring, A. (2022). Epistemic Beliefs in Science-A Systematic Integration of Evidence From Multiple Studies. Educational Psychology Review, 34(3), 1541–1575. doi.org/10.1007/s10648-022-09661-w. OA.
      2020 Reith, M., & Nehring, A. (2020). Scientific reasoning and views on the nature of scientific inquiry: testing a new framework to understand and model epistemic cognition in science. International Journal of Science Education, 42(16), 2716–2741. doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2020.1834168.
      2020

      Nehring, A. (2020). Naïve and informed views on the nature of scientific inquiry in large‐scale assessments: Two sides of the same coin or different currencies? Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 57(4), 510–535. doi.org/10.1002/tea.21598. OA.

    • Selected research project

      Social Media and Climate Change - SoMeCliCS

      Everyday life is strongly characterised by communication on social media, especially among young people. Even though these services enable people to communicate in real time around the globe, problems such as echo chambers, filter bubbles and fake news have emerged in recent years. These phenomena also influence social discourse on topics such as climate change and lead to digital spaces in which scientific facts are openly denied. Due to this development, there is a need for further insights into the role of social media in the climate change discourse.

      https://www.idn.uni-hannover.de/de/forschung/forschungsprogramm/didaktik-der-biologie/someclics/

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Dominic Nyhuis
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Dominic Nyhuis' work focuses on quantitative methods in the social sciences. In addition to classical survey and evaluation methods, he deals with automatic text analysis, as well as innovative data sources in the social sciences, such as the automatic evaluation of image and video data and experimental methods

    • Further Information
      Scientific Education

      2022: Professorship for Quantitative Methods in Political Science, Leibniz University of Hannover (LUH)

      2019–2022: Visiting Assistant Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

      2018–2019: Former Academic Councillor, LUH

      2015–2018: Post-Doc Goethe University Frankfurt

      Memberships

      German Political Science Association

      European Political Science Association

       

    • Qualifications and Career
      2023

      Behrens, L., Nyhuis, D. & Gschwend, T. (2023). Political Ambition and opposition Legislative Review: Bill scrutiny as an intra‐party signalling device. European Journal of Political Research. doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12583

      2023

      Behrens, L., Nyhuis, D. & Gschwend, T. (2023a). Constructive and destructive Legislative review: The Government-Opposition divide in parliamentary oversight. The Journal of Politics, 85(1), 223–239. doi.org/10.1086/720649

      2021

      Nyhuis, D. & Stoetzer, L. F. (2020). The two faces of party ambiguity: a comprehensive model of ambiguous party position perceptions. British Journal of Political Science, 51(4), 1421–1438. doi.org/10.1017/s0007123419000759

      2021

      Nyhuis, D., Song, H. & Boomgaarden, H. G. (2020). Disproportionality in media representations of campaign negativity. Political Science Research and Methods, 9(3), 519–531. doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2020.4

      2021

      Zittel, T. & Nyhuis, D. (2020). The Legislative Effects of Campaign Personalization An analysis on the legislative behavior of successful German constituency candidates. Comparative Political Studies, 54(2), 312–338. doi.org/10.1177/0010414020938103

    • Selected Research Project

      The digital revolution signifies a golden age for the social sciences. With the help of digital data, social processes can be quantified in an unprecedented way. While the social sciences have been able to gain numerous insights in recent decades by analysing digital data, research is still visibly lagging behind its potential. While automated text analysis has become a standard part of social science research, other data sources such as image, audio and video data are still largely ignored. While such data sources promise significant innovations in numerous fields of research, they are often associated with particular research ethics challenges. In order to demonstrate the possibilities, but also the ethical challenges of automatic video analysis for the social sciences, the project "Political attention and the substance of legislative reform", funded by the German Research Foundation, analysed parliamentary video recordings and investigated areas of application for political science research.

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Delphine Reinhardt
    • Research Focus

      Prof Dr Delphine Reinhardt's research focuses primarily on the following points:

      1.     Investigating threats to privacy.
      2.     Raising users' awareness of these threats.
      3.     Developing countermeasures to protect users' privacy.
      4.     Understanding the factors that motivate users to disclose sensitive information.
      5.     Empowering users to protect their privacy by providing innovative and applicable methods.

      Her general research interests are privacy, anonymity and pseudonymity, trust and reputation, and usability.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2009-2013: Dr. Ing. (with honours), Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Department of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

      2005-2009: Dipl. Ing. (very good) & Diplôme d'Ingénieur, Degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany , Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Electronique et de ses Applications, Cergy, France

      Professional Career

      Since January 2018: W3 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen

      2014-2017: Junior Professor (W1) for Practical Computer Science and IT Security Group Leader "Privacy and Security in Ubiquitous Computing", Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

      2014-2017: Group Leader "Privacy and Security in Ubiquitous Computing", Fraunhofer FKIE, Wachtberg, Germany

      2013-2014: Postdoctoral researcher at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

      2009-2013: Research Assistant at the Secure Mobile Networking Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

      Memberships

      Steering Committee of the "Security" Area of the German Informatics Society (GI)

      Steering Committee of the GI/ITG Section "Communication and Distributed Systems” (KuVS)

      Committee of the "Services and Applications" Area of the Information Technology Society in the VDE

      Board of the GI Advisory Board of University Professors

      Awards and Honours    
       

      2021: IEEE Senior Member

      2019: Johann-Philipp-Reis-Prize 2019 for outstanding innovative publications by the Information Technology Society (ITG) in the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), Deutsche Telekom, Friedrichsdorf im Taunus and Gelnhausen

      2019: "Rising Star in Networking and Communications" by N2 Women (1 of 10 worldwide)

      2019: Award for the best demonstration: A. Railean and D. Reinhardt, "OnLITE: Online Label for Internet of Things Transparency Enhancement", Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT) Workshop together with the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium

      2014: Prize for outstanding doctoral thesis in the field of information technology awarded by ITG-VDE

      2014: Prize for outstanding scientific achievements awarded by the Association of Friends of the Technical University of Darmstadt for the best doctoral thesis in the Department of Computer Science

      2014: Prize for the best doctoral thesis awarded by the Communication and Distributed Systems Group (KuVS), supported by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and ITG-VDE

      2013: Award for the best demonstration: A. Reinhardt, D. Christin, K. Li, S. S. Kanhere, and J. Zhang, "Smarter Buildings for the Smart Grid? Let Them Forecast Their Power Consumption", 38th IEEE LCN

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 P. Kühtreiber, V. Pak, and D. Reinhardt. "A method like this would be overkill’": Developers' Perceived Issues with Privacy-preserving Computation Methods. Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2023. Accepted for publication.
      2022 A. Richter, P. Kühtreiber, D. Reinhardt. On the Impact of Information Provided to Employees on their Intention to Disclose Data Collected by Smart Watches to their Employers. Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2022.
      2021 J. Tolsdorf, F. Dehling, D. Reinhardt, and L. Lo Iacono. Exploring Mental Models of the Right to Informational Self-Determination of Office Workers in Germany. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2021.
      2021 P. Murmann, M. Beckerle, S. Fischer-Hübner, and D. Reinhardt. Reconciling the What, When and How of Privacy Notifications in Fitness Tracking Scenarios. Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 2021.
      2021 D. Reinhardt, M. Khurana, and L. Hernández Acosta. "I still Need my Privacy": Exploring the Level of Comfort and Privacy Preferences of German-speaking Older Adults in the Case of Mobile Assistant Robots. Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), 2021.
    • Selected Research Project

      (DFG material grant, will start from 1 January 2024 but already in GEPRIS gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/505982147)

      PrivacyAN: Bridging the gap between society and the privacy ecosystem

      An enormous and still growing amount of data is collected online about citizens. This data not only jeopardises our privacy, but also provides a breeding ground for manipulation and discrimination. Despite its regulatory success, the General Data Protection Regulation does not fully solve this critical problem. The core idea of this motion is therefore to empower citizens to protect their privacy in the best possible way. So far, members from across the privacy ecosystem, such as researchers, privacy organisations and privacy advocates, have made tremendous efforts to achieve this goal, albeit with limited success: few citizens use technology to enhance the protection of their privacy. Therefore, PrivacyAN aims to contribute to bridging the existing gap between society and the privacy ecosystem.Our approach goes beyond the state of the art, which currently focuses mainly on (1) predicting the use or adoption intentions of these technologies by citizens and (2) evaluating the usability of these technologies.In PrivacyAN, we will work towards removing barriers that users encounter before installing solutions to enhance their privacy.To this end, we will develop new methods to help users inform themselves, choose which solution to install and make the consequences of their choice transparent.The methods to be developed will be accompanied by the design of the corresponding user interfaces and integrated into a prototype that we will evaluate thoroughly. As a result, the results of this project will deepen our understanding of this topic and also provide solutions to reshape the current state of the art. In addition, citizens as well as the privacy ecosystem will particularly benefit from our findings and derived design principles.

       

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Reydon
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Thomas Reydon is a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist working on conceptual questions in and about the life sciences. His main research interests are evolutionary theory, scientific explanations, classification in the sciences, natural kinds, connections between classification and nature conservation, and research ethics and responsibility in science. He is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Editor in Chief of the Journal for General Philosophy of Science, and Editor in Chief of the book series History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences (Springer).

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2005: Ph.D. (Philosophy of Biology and Theoretical Biology), University of Leiden

      1997: M.A. (Philosophy of Science), University of Leiden

      1993: M.Sc. (Physics), University of Leiden.

      Professional Career

      Since 2020: Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology, Leibniz University of Hanover (LUH)

      Since 2018: Associated Faculty, Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science group (SEPOS), Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University

      2018–2019: Visiting Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinarity (C4I), College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University

      2015–2019: Professor of Philosophy of Biology, LUH

      2013: Visiting Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

      2009–2015: Junior Professor of Philosophy of Biology, LUH

      2009: Assistant Professor, Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science (ZEWW), LUH

      2008: Visiting Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

      2006–2008: Postdoctoral Researcher (DFG personal career grant), Center for Philosophy and Ethics of Science (ZEWW), LUH

      2004–2005: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Philosophy and Ethics of Science (ZEWW), LUH

      1999–2004: Research Assistant at the Chair of Philosophy of Biology (Department of Theoretical Biology, Institute of Biology), University of Leiden

      Memberships

      Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)

      European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA)

      International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)

      Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP)

      Fellow of the Linnean Society

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023

      Du Crest, A., Valkovic, M., Ariew, A., Desmond, H., Huneman, P. & Reydon, T.A.C. (Eds): Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism, Cham: Springer.

      2023

      Reydon, T.A.C.: ‘The proper role of history in evolutionary explanations’, Noûs 57: 162-187.

      2021

      Reydon, T.A.C. (2021): ‘Misconceptions, conceptual pluralism, and conceptual toolkits: Bringing the philosophy of science to the teaching of evolution’, European Journal for Philosophy of Science 11: 48.

      2021

      Reydon, T.A.C. (2021): ‘Generalized Darwinism as modest unification’, American Philosophical Quarterly 58: 79-93.

      2020

      Lohse, S., Wasmer, M.S. & Reydon, T.A.C. (2020): ‘Integrating philosophy of science into research on ethical, legal and social issues in the life sciences’, Perspectives on Science 28: 700-736.

  • Prof. Dr. Silke Schicktanz
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr Silke Schicktanz works on intercultural bioethics, science and responsibility, digitalisation of the healthcare system and ethics of predictive medicine.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2004–2005: Research assistant with teaching duties at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, University of Münster

      2002–2003: Research assistant (post-doctoral position) at the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin-Buch in the Bioethics and Science Communication working group

      2001–2002: Project management of the Citizens' Conference: Dispute about genetic diagnostics, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

      1998–2000: Dissertation in the subject 'Ethics in the Biosciences'; title: "Medizin- und tierethische Aspekte der Xenotransplantation. A scientific-ethical investigation of the current state of research"

      1999–2000: Research assistant at the Chair of Ethics in the Biosciences, University of Tübingen; DFG project "New Perspectives in Transplantation Medicine"

      1991–1997: Diploma studies in biology with a minor in philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, degree in zoology, genetics and philosophy, diploma thesis: "An aerobic/anerobic microbial combination test with Vibrio fischeri as a possible contribution to the reduction of animal experiments".

      Scientific Positions

      2015: Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald

      2011–2012: Feodor-Lynen-Fellowship of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation

      2012: Invited Research Fellow at the JNIAS Delhi India

      Since 2011: Deputy Director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine

      2011: Adjunct Professor for Philosophy, Dept of Philosophy, San Francisco State University

      Since 2010: Professorship for Culture and Ethics of Biomedicine at the University Medical Centre Göttingen (W2, permanent)

      2006–2010: Junior Professor for History, Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the University Medical Centre Göttingen, Department of Ethics and History of Medicine

      Memberships

      Since 2012: Academy for Ethics in Medicine; Board Member

      Since 2012: Board Member of International Council of Science

      Since 2010: Standing Commission for Organ Transplantation of the BÄK; dept. Member

      Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of organ Transplantation (ELPAT) of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

      European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

      Central European Society for Alternatives to Animal Experiments

      1998– 2001 Member of the DFG Research Training Group "Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities"

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Schicktanz, S.; Welsch, Johannes; Schweda, Mark; Hein, Andreas; Rieger, Jochem W.; Kirste, Thomas (2023): AI-assisted ethics? Considerations of AI simulation for the ethical assessment and design of assistive technologies. In Frontiers in Genetics 14, Article 1039839. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1039839.
      2022 Buhr, L., & Schicktanz, S. (2022). Individual benefits and collective challenges: Experts’ views on data-driven approaches in medical research and healthcare in the German context. Big Data & Society, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517221092653. OA.
      2021 Rodríguez-Arias, D., Molina-Pérez, A., Hannikainen, I. R., Delgado, J., Söchtig, B., Wöhlke, S., & Schicktanz, S. (2021). Governance quality indicators for organ procurement policies. PloS One, 16(6), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252686. OA.
      2021 Schicktanz, S. & Schweda, M.: 2021: Aging 4.0? – Rethinking the ethical framing of technology-assisted eldercare. In: History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43 (3). doi: 10.1007/s40656-021-00447-x
      2021 Petersen, N. & Schicktanz, S. (2021): The Experts’ Advice: Prevention and Responsibility in German Media and Scientific Discourses on Dementia. In: Qualitative Health Research 31 (11): 2005–2018. doi: 10.1177/10497323211014844

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Margrit Seckelmann
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. Margrit Seckelmann is Professor of Public Law and the Law of the Digital Society at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Her research focuses on the law of the digital society (data protection law, law of artificial intelligence, law of digital administration) and science law.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2016 Habilitation at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer

      2004 Doctorate at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

      1999 Second state examination in law (Berlin)

      1998 M. A. in Modern and Contemporary History (FU Berlin)

      1997 First State Examination in Law (Berlin)

      Scientific Positions

      Since October 2021 Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover (University Professorship for Public Law and the Law of the Digital Society)

      2001 – 2021 Managing Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration

      1999 – 2001 Member of the Independent Junior Research Group "Law in the Industrial Revolution" of the Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main

      1997 – 1999 Trainee lawyer at the Berlin Court of Appeal

      Membership

      Association of German Constitutional Law Professors, Association for Constitutional History

      LCSS-Fellow, L3S-Fellow (both Leibniz University Hannover)

      Awards and Honours Prize for Scientific Law 2018 (10,000 EUR)
      Prize for Good Legislation 2016 (2000 EUR, 3rd place)

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Margrit Seckelmann (2023) Artificial intelligence in administration - The draft European AI regulation and dealing with information technology risks, in: Die Verwaltung 56 (2023), pp. 1-29
      2021 Margrit Seckelmann (2021) Algorithm-compatible administrative law? Legal and linguistic considerations on a 'standardisation of legal terms'", in: Die Verwaltung 54 (2021), pp. 251-272.
      2021 Margrit Seckelmann/ Lorenza Violini / Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle / Giada Ragone (eds., 2021) "Freedom of Science under Pressure?", Heidelberg 2021 (with) (forthcoming, to be published in May 2021).
      2020 Margrit Seckelmann (2020) Struggles of interpretation on campus: The desire for safe spaces and trigger warnings", in: Kritische Vierteljahresschrift für Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft 103 (2020), pp. 372-387.
      2018 Margrit Seckelmann, Evaluation and Law. Structures, processes and legitimisation issues of state knowledge acquisition through (scientific) evaluations", Tübingen 2018.

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Alfred Simon
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr Alfred Simon deals with questions of clinical ethics and ethics counselling: patient autonomy, living wills and proxy decisions, euthanasia, organ transplantation.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      1987-1993: Studies of Philosophy and Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

      1993: Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria

      2008: Habilitation in Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

      Professional Career

      1993 – 1995: Research Associate, Centre for Ethics and Medicine, Wissenschaftliche Landesakademie, Krems, Austria.

      Since 1996: Managing Director and Scientific Director of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

      2010 – 2018: Regular substitute for the chair of Prof. Dr Bettina Schöne-Seifert at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine at the University of Münster (in each winter semester)

      Memberships

      Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)

      German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP)

      Committee for Ethical and Medico-Legal Questions of Principle of the German Medical Association

      Head of the AG BÄK Procedural Principles and Ethics of the Standing Commission on Organ Transplantation of the German Medical Association

      Member of the Board of the Centre for Medical Law at the University of Göttingen

      Chairman of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Medical Center Göttingen

      Awards and Honours Habilitation Award of the Medical Faculty of the Georg-August University Göttingen

       

    • Selected Publications
      2022 Salzmann, L., Alt-Epping, B. & Simon, A. (2022). Correction: Palliative Sedierung bei amyotropher Lateralsklerose: Ergebnisse einer bundesweiten Umfrage unter Neurologen und Palliativmedizinern in Deutschland. BMC Neurology, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-022-02718-x
      2021 Ilse, B., Alt-Epping, B., Günther, A., Liman, J. & Simon, A. (2021). Klinische Ethikberatung in der Neurologie - eine Fallserie. BMC Neurology, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12883-021-02244-2
      2021 Simon, A., Zang, C. & Nauck, F. (2021). Patient data and confidentiality in clinical ethics counselling - Results of an empirical survey. Medical Law, 39(4), 340-345. ​doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00350-021-5841-y
      2020 Simon, A. (2020). Self-determined to the end?! Ways to the human being, 72(6), 475-486. https://doi.org/10.13109/weme.2020.72.6.475
      2020

      Schicktanz, S., Simon, A., Raphael, S. & Ahlert, M. (2020). The Ethical Debate over child priority in post-mortem organ allocation: A scoping review and Practical-ethical Outlook. Transplantation Reviews, 34(3), 100543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trre.2020.100543 

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Philippe van Basshuysen
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr. van Basshuysen's research focuses on the ethics of public health (AOS) and the areas of (AOC) philosophy, politics and economics (PPE).

    • Qualifications and Career

      Scientific Education

      2019: PhD, Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

      2014: MSc. Philosophy of Science Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

      2013: BA, Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Heidelberg University, DE

      Professional Career

      Since 2023: Assistant Professor, Wageningen University & Research Institute, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, NL

      2019 – 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Philosophy, University of Hanover, DE

      Memberships

      2014: Science communication assistant, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy    

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Van Basshuysen, P. (2023). Austinian model evaluation. Philosophy of Science90(5), 1459–1468. https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2023.24 
      2022

      Van Basshuysen, P. (2022). Markets, market algorithms, and algorithmic bias. Journal of Economic Methodology, 30(4), 310–321. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178x.2022.2100919  

      2022 White, L., Van Basshuysen, P., & Frisch, M. (2022). When is lockdown justified? Philosophy of Medicine, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2022.85   
      2021

      Van Basshuysen, P. (2021). Rationality in games and institutions. Synthese, 199(5–6), 12295–12314. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03333-y  

      2021

      Van Basshuysen, P., & White, L. (2021). The Epistemic Duties of Philosophers: An addendum. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 31(4), 447–451. https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2021.0023  

    External Websites

  • Prof. Dr. Margarete Vöhringer
    • Research Focus

      Margarete Vöhringer deals with the interconnectedness of aesthetics and knowledge, on the one hand by engaging in artistic research, and on the other hand by incorporating the materiality of the sciences. A particular focus is on the practices of knowledge production that circulate between the arts and sciences

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2006: Doctorate in Art History at the HU Berlin, second supervision in History of Science

      2001 – 2004: Scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin

      Studied art history and media theory, philosophy and aesthetics as well as media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.

      Professional Career

      Since 2017: Professorship for Materiality of Knowledge at the Georg-August-University Göttingen

      Since 2011: Head of the Visual Knowledge research area; parallel teaching assignments and deputy professorships at the universities of Berlin (FU, HU, UDK), the Bauhaus University Weimar and the University of Zurich

      2006 – 2009: Research assistant at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in various research projects.

      Membership

      Member of the Society for the History of Science

      Medicine and Technology. V. (GWMT)

      Member of the German Art Historians Association.

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Vöhringer, Margarete: Avant-Garde and Psychotechnics, Routledge, London/ New York, 2023.
      2022 Vöhringer, Margarete: Guiding principle “Objects”, in: Spaces of Knowledge. The basic exhibition in the Forum Wissen Göttingen, pp. 202-211, Göttingen 2022.
      2022 Vöhringer, Margarete: Barthes on plastic, or: the legacy of a synthetical material, Open Access: undisciplined-thinking.com barthes-on-plastic-or-the-legacy-of-a-synthetic-material/, 2022.
      2019 Reulecke, Anne Kathrin; Vöhringer, Margarete (ed.): Visual impairment. Limits of the visual in the arts and sciences, Kulturverlag Kadmos, Berlin 2019.
  • Prof. Dr. Andreas Wiebe
    • Research Focus

      Prof. Dr Andreas Wiebe's research focuses  on competition and intellectual property law as well as media and information law. This includes copyright law, industrial property rights, unfair competition law, IT law, Internet law and the law of digitalization and AI, including data protection law. Conducts numerous externally funded research projects with a focus on copyright and data protection law.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      2001: Habilitation "The electronic declarations of will", University of Hanover

      1991: Doctorate (Dr. jur.) with a comparative law thesis on software protection in Germany and the U.S.A.

      1987 – 1988: LL.M. University of Virginia (U.S.A.) with Fulbright Scholarship

      1981 – 1987: Law studies at the University of Hanover

      Professional Career

      2017 – present: Director of the LL.M. programme "European and Transnational IP and IT Law" at the Faculty of Law of the University of Göttingen

      2010 – 2012: Visiting Scholar University of Nanjing, China

      2009 – today: Professorship for Civil Law, Competition and Intellectual Property Law, Media and Information Law, Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen

      January 2008 - July 2008: Visiting Professor Stanford Law School

      2002 – 2009: Head of the Department of Information Law and Intellectual Property Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

      1991 – 2002: Research Assistant at the Institute for Legal Informatics, University of Hanover

      Memberships

      Since 2004: Chairman of the research association Infolaw, Vienna

      Since 1996: Member of the GRUR e.V. association, active member of the Data Law Committee since 2017

      Since 1995: Member of the German Society for Law and Informatics (DGRI e.V.), 2005-2012 Deputy Chairman

      Society for Comparative Law

      Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale (ALAI), Austrian national group

      International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP)

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Wiebe, A., Helmschrot, C., Kreutz, O. (2023). Study on the necessity and orientation of specific data access regulations in the field of networked vehicles in the automotive industry, carried out on behalf of the Federal Network Agency.
      2021 Wiebe, A. (2021). Legal issues of AI: Patent law, in: Leupold/Wiebe/Glossner (eds.), IT-Recht, Recht, Wirtschaft und Technik der digitalen Transformation, 4th ed. 2021, part 9.6.
      2020 Wiebe, A. (2020). Open Data in Germany and Europe, Proposal for the further development of the legal framework of an information order (Open Data - Public Service Information Directive), Berlin.
      2020 Wiebe, A. (2020). Data protection, big data and AI in healthcare, in: Specht et al. (eds.), FS Jürgen Taeger, Oldenburg 2020, pp. 531-554.
      2019 Wiebe, A., Helmschrot, C. (2019). Investigation of the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by online services.
  • Prof. Dr. med. Claudia Wiesemann
    • Research Focus

      Claudia Wiesemann researches the ethics, history and theory of medicine, especially reproduction and family, patient autonomy, children's rights in medicine, intersex and transsexuality as well as addiction, death and dying. She is particularly interested in how new medical options, on the one hand, and people's ideas about a good life over time, on the other, are mutually dependent. The focus is on a human-based, empirically saturated ethics that is able to take practical aspects of life into account.

    • Qualifications and Career
      Scientific Education

      1988: Doctorate in History of Medicine, University of Münster

      1988 –1990: Studies in Philosophy, Modern History and History of Medicine, University of Münster

      1984: Licence to practise medicine

      1977 – 1984: Studied human medicine at the University of Münster.

      Professional Career

      Since 1998: Director (C4), Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Centre, Göttingen

      1990: Habilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

      1990 – 1998: Research Assistant, Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

      1994 – 1988: Junior doctor in internal medicine.

      Memberships

      Since 2021 Full member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

      Since 2017 member of the advisory board of the National Coalition - Network for the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Berlin

      2016 – 2020 Deputy Chairwoman of the German Ethics Council

      2012 – 2020 Member of the German Ethics Council

      2010 – 2016 Member, Central Ethics Committee at the German Medical Association

      2002 – 2012 President of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine, Göttingen

      2002 – 2011 Member, Central Ethics Committee for Stem Cell Research, Robert Koch Institute Berlin

      2008 – 2010 Member, Commission for Ethics in Research on Children and Adolescents, German Academy of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

      Since 1998 member, Ethics Committee for Research on Humans, University Medical Center Göttingen

      Awards and Honours

      2022 Science Prize (Cat. I) from the state of Lower Saxony

      2010 and 2014 Associate Fellow, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen

      1978 – 1984 Scholarship holder, German National Academic Foundation

       

    • Selected Publications
      2023 Wiesemann, C. (2023). Reproduction, medicine and the good life. On a systematically neglected connection. In H.-J.Ehni, G. Marckmann, R. Ranisch, & H. Tümmers (Eds.), Vita brevis, ars longa. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (forthcoming).
      2021 Hädicke, M. & Wiesemann, C. (2021). What can the concept of discrimination do for medical ethics? - An analysis. Ethics in Medicine, 33(3), 369-386. doi.org/10.1007/s00481-021-00631-4
      2020 Wiesemann, C. (2020). Is a ban on egg donation sufficiently justifiable? An ethical analysis. In Springer eBooks. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-60298-0_8
      2018

      Wiesemann, C. (2018). Which ethics for the fetus as patient? In Routledge eBooks. doi.org/10.4324/9781315170749-3

      2017

      Wiesemann, C. (2017). On the interrelationship of vulnerability and trust.

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