Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn

 

+49 228 73 66100

 

lifeethics@uni-bonn.de

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Director of Center for Life Ethics


Hertz Chair TRA4

Prof. Dr.
Christiane Woopen

Biography

Christiane Woopen studied human Medicine and philosophy in Cologne, Bonn and Hagen. Before joining the University of Bonn, she was managing director of the interfaculty center ceres, professor of ethics and theory of medicine, and head of the Ethics Research Unit at the University of Cologne. In recent years, she has been a member of numerous international and national expert groups, most recently as chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, which advises the European Commission, chair of the German Ethics Council, president of the 11th Global Summit of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees, member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, and co-spokesperson of the Data Ethics Commission of the German government. Woopen is a member of Academia Europaea, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2018, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1st Class. Since October 1, 2021, she holds the first Heinrich Hertz Professorship at the University of Bonn and leads the foundation and development of the "Center for Life Ethics".

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