Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn
Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
D-53113 Bonn
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Director of Center for Life Ethics
Hertz Chair TRA4
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".
Center for Life Ethics
Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 7
53113 Bonn
10/2021
Heinrich Hertz Professorship in the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Individuals, Institutions and Societies", University of Bonn
2009–2021
Professorship for Ethics and Theory of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Cologne
2005
Habilitation and award of the venia legendi for the subject Ethics and Theory of Medicine by the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne "Handlungen und Güter – Grundlegung einer handlungstheoretisch fundierten Güterethik und ihre Anwendung am Beispiel der Präimplantationsdiagnostik"
1993
Doctorate in medicine at the University of Bonn
1990–1995
Studied philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Hagen
1982–1988
Studied human medicine at the University of Cologne
Since 2021
Heinrich Hertz Professorship in the Transdisciplinary Research Area "Individuals, Institutions and Societies", University of Bonn
2017–2021
Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies
2013–2021
Executive Director of ceres (Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health))
2012–2016
President of the German Ethics Council
2011–2019
Vice Dean for Academic Development and Gender at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne
2009–2021
Head of the Ethics Research Unit at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne
1998–2009
Lectureship at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne; teaching in the study courses of human medicine and health economics
1998–2009
Research assistant at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Cologne (Direktor: Prof. Dr. Dr. K. Bergdolt))
1994–1998
Research assistant at the Institute for Science and Ethics e.V., Bonn, Department of Biomedical Ethics (Direktor: Prof. Dr. L. Honnefelder)
1992–1993
Research assistant at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bonn
1991–1994
Freelancer of the Cusanuswerk e.V.
1989–1991
Medical internship, then assistant doctor in the gynaecological-obstetric department of the Protestant Hospital Weyertal, Cologne (Prof. Dr. F. Paulußen)
Studies on Health and Society. Springer Verlag Berlin:
