English Summary

↓ Education
↓ Academic Positions
↓ Publications (English only)
↓ Fellowships and Awards
↓ Supervision
↓ Teaching
↓ Organisation of Workshops and Conferences
↓ Reviewing Activities
↓ Membership of Academic Societies

Areas of Specialization

Narrative Ethics, Public Health Ethics, Bioethics, Medical Humanities, Public Health Communication, Obesity, Organ Transplantation; Multimodality and Ethics

Areas of Competence

Research Ethics, Public Health Humanities, Intersectionality and Gender Studies, Reproductive Technologies, Psychiatry, Dis/ability

Education

2023Habilitation Medical Ethics / Medical Humanities, Medical Faculty, Göttingen University, Germany
2016PhD Bioethics, Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University, Germany
2010Magister Artium Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Göttingen University, Germany

Academic Positions

since 2023Group Leader, Working Group „Public Health Ethics and Health Humanities“, Institute for Public Health and Nursing Research, Bremen University, Germany
since 2020Tenured Lecturer, Faculty 11: Human and Health Sciences, Bremen University, Germany
2010 – 2020Research Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Göttingen University Medical Center, Germany
2018Guest Researcher, Network of Institutions for Medical Ethics Education, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria
2013 – 2014Guest Researcher, Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology, and Society, Graz University, Austria
2010 – 2013Doctoral Fellow, Research Training Group: Dynamics of Space and Gender, Kassel University and Göttingen University, Germany

Publications (English only)

Fellowships and Awards

2022Award for Excellent Teaching, State of Bremen, Germany
2017Award for Young Academics, Academy of Medical Ethics, Germany
2013Award of Foundation Council, Göttingen University, Germany

Supervision (details upon request)

I supervise around 20 thesis (BA, MA and PhD) per year in the areas of public health ethics, didactics of public health ethics, health humanities, health communication, organ transplantation, body weight/obesity, disability, gender/intersectionality, qualitative or hermeneutic methods.

I was also a founder and editor-in-chief, of the bilingual Working Paper Series „Gender(ed) Thoughts” (www.gendered-thoughts.uni-goettingen.de). The series is open access and free of charge, providing a space for early career researchers‘ publications in the field of gender/queer/intersectional studies.

Teaching activities
(course details available upon request)

since
2020 		1,0 fte teaching in public health ethics, including courses on obesity, organ donation, health humanities, academic writing, research ethics, intersectionality, good scientific practice, and health justice.

I am teaching students in a BA Public Health and in three different MA (Epidemiology; Public Health – Health Promotion and Prevention; Public Health – Health Services, Health Economics and Health Management)
2019-2020Elective, Ethical Aspects of Public Health Communication
2018-2019Research Based Learning, Communication patterns in obesity prevention
2017-2020Ethics of Intersex/DSD (compulsory course for medical students) 
2016-2020History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine (compulsory courses for medical students)
2016-2018Workshop-Series, Situated Knowledges – Theories, Methodologies, Empirical Data
2012-2018Introduction to Bioethics (compulsory course for students of Molecular Medicine)

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

2020Conference, Intervening the Body: Reluctance, Critique, or Deliberation?, 40 participants, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
2019International Workshop, Epistemic (In)justice, Public Participation, and Moral Expertise in Health Discourses, 20 participants, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
2018International Workshop, Multimodality and Applied Ethics, 10 participants, Innsbruck University, Austria
2017Stakeholder Conference, The Clinical Translation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, 45 participants, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
2017International Conference, Hype and Hope from Human Reproductive Cloning to Genome Editing, 35 participants, Turin University, Italy
2016Conference, Discourse and Critique on Organ Donation, 35 participants, University of Nürnberg-Erlangen, Germany
2015International Workshop, Methodological and Ethical Perspectives of Visual Health Communication, 20 participants, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany
2013Symposium: Gendered Spaces – Spatialized Gender, 80 participants, Göttingen University & Kassel University, Germany
2012-2018Bioethical Public Film Series, 25 events, 60 participants on average, University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany

Reviewing Activities

External Reviewer, Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre
External Reviewer, Israel Science Foundation
External Reviewer, Progress in Transplantation
External Reviewer, Sociology of Health & Illness
External Reviewer, Journal of Clinical Research and Medicine
External Reviewer, Plos One
External Reviewer, Ethik in der Medizin

Memberships

Academy of Medical Ethics, Germany
Society for Public Health, Germany
Ethics‘ Commission, Bremen University
Central Commission on Organ Transplantation, German Medical Association, Germany
Center for Gender Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany
Gender Studies Association, Germany