Christiane Woopen holds the first Heinrich Hertz Chair at Bonn University since 2021 and is founding director of the "Center for Life Ethics". She is in numerous expert groups and Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies.
Professor Christiane Woopen
Christiane Woopen
Woopen studied human medicine and philosophy in Cologne, Bonn and Hagen. She habilitated in ethics and theory of medicine. In the context of national and international research projects, she and her team focus their research on the ethical aspects of the life-changing dynamics of technologization, economization, ecologization and globalization of individual and social life, as well as the associated transformation processes.
She is also active in the field of policy advice, as Chair of the German Ethics Council (2012-2016), as President of the Global Summit of National Ethics Councils (2014-2016), as a member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO until 2017, as co-spokesperson of the Data Ethics Commission of the German Federal Government from 2018 - 2019, and as Chair of the European Group on Ethics from 2017 to 2021. Woopen received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and is a member of several Academies of Sciences (NRW, BBAW, Academia Europaea).
Further information: Universität Bonn/Prof. Dr. Christiane Woopen