Robert Ranisch
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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
  • 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: Dr. Kurt und Irmgard Meister Stiftung
  • 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
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