Dr. phil. Robert Ranisch*
AOS: ethics of technology, biomedical ethics, digital ethics, organizational ethics, (meta-)ethics and moral theory
AOI: population ethics, ethics of risk, business ethics, moral psychology, political ethics
AOI: population ethics, ethics of risk, business ethics, moral psychology, political ethics
- Principal researcher of the research unit "Ethics of Genome Editing" at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tuebingen
- Managing director of the Clinical Ethics Committee at the University Hospital of Tübingen
- Deputy member of the Ethics Committee of the Medical Association of Baden-Württemberg (Ethik-Kommission bei der Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg)
- Managing director of the Global Applied Ethics Institute
- Board member and associate researcher at the Ethics Centre, University of Jena
- Associate researcher at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tuebingen
- Member of the the TT30, the young think tank of the Club of Rome
Current projects
- Research Unit "Ethics of Genome Editing" (principal researcher, funded by Dr. Kurt and Irmgard Meister Foundation)
- New MEMEs - New Measures for Engaging with Medical Ethics (principal researcher, together with Julia Diekämper, Museum für Naturkunde, funded by Volkswagen Foundation)
- Report on germline genome editing for the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (together with Tanja Henking)
- Special issue on genome editing and human reproduction (together with Hans-Jörg Ehni and Urban Wiesing)
- Special issue on ethics management in organizations (in preparation)
- Monograph on the history and ethics of Liberal Eugenics (under contract)
- Workshop "Young Medical Ethics", German Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)
Academic Positions
- Since 2017: Researcher (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tuebingen
- 2015 - 2016: Researcher (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the Ethics Centre, University of Jena
- 2015 - 2016: Researcher (Wiss. Mitarbeiter) at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tuebingen
- 2015: Scholar-in-residence Brocher Foundation
- 2013 - 2014: Research Assistent (gepr. Hilfskraft) at the Chair for Ethics, Theory and History of the Life Sciences, University of Tuebingen
Education
- 2013 - 2017: Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Duesseldorf (with distinction), date of defense: January 2018
- 2011 - 2013: Postgraduate Training in Bioethics, University of Tuebingen
- 2008 - 2010 : M.A. in Continental Philosophy, University of Warwick
- 2008: Recognized Student in Philosophy, University of Oxford
- 2003 - 2007: Studies in Philosophy, Applied Ethics, and Political Sciences, University of Jena and Goettingen
Grants, Third party funds and Awards
- 2019: Grant by VolkswagenStiftung
- 2018: AeV advancement award "Ethics and Medicine"
- 2017-2018: Grant by Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament)
- 2014: Ph.D. grant by FAZIT-Foundation
- 2011 - 2013: Ph.D. grant by DFG (Research German Research Foundation)
- 2008 - 2009: Hölderlin Scholarship by the Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
- 2006 - 2009: Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
- 2007 - : Various travel grants
Teaching experience
- Ethics of genome editing and selective reproduction
- Global justice
- Introduction to Applied Ethics
- Introduction to Business Ethics
- Medical Terminology
- Moral Theory and meta ethics
- Organization Ethics
- Population Ethics and the non-identity problem
- Research Ethics
- Theories of sustainability
*full cv available upon request
