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Notes on Professional Development

Year Development
from April 1990 Studies in Latin and Greek Philology and Philosophy at the WWU-Münster
5 December 1996 1st State Examination for Teaching at Secondary Level I and II in the subjects Latin and Philosophy. The topic of the examination thesis is: "The Conception of Organic Processes and Structures in the Natural-Philosophical Writings of Aristotle"
January 1997 - January 2000 Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep)
February 2000 - September 2001 Research Assistant at the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE) in Bonn. Project: "Restricting the Application of Predictive Genetic Tests to Health Purposes? Medical, Ethical, and Legal Aspects of a Responsible Approach to Predictive Genetic Tests". Collaboration on the editorial staff of the Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Ethik
15 June 2001 Completion of the doctoral examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The topic of the dissertation is: "Epistemic Aspects of Ethical Thinking, Feeling, and Judging. The Relationship between Principles of Ethically Right Action and Evaluative Experience in Pyrrhonian Scepticism, in Stoicism, and in the Ethics of Aristotle."
October 2001 - October 2005 Research Assistant at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster within the Collaborative Research Centre 496: "Symbolic Communication and Social Value Systems from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution". The title of the philosophical subproject is: "Foundations and Types of Virtue Ethics" (project leader: Prof. Dr. Ludwig Siep)
Summer Semester 2002 - Summer Semester 2005 Lecturer at the Münster University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Design (Design Theory, Philosophy)
since November 2005 Research Assistant at the Department of Philosophy of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (Lecturer for Special Duties)
January 2009 Successful completion of the (cumulative) habilitation procedure, venia legendi for Philosophy. Lecture in the colloquium: "World Poverty and Ethics. A Dilemma of Responsibility and Its Solidary Resolution."
Summer Semester 09 - Winter Semester 2011/12 Acting Professor for "Philosophy/Practical Philosophy with a Focus on Legal and Social Philosophy, History of Philosophy" at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
2009-2011 Book Review Editor for the journal "Ethical Theory and Moral Practice" (Springer)
January 2012 - 2025 Member of the Advisory Board of the journal "Ethik in der Medizin" (Springer)
January 2016-2021 Deputy Member of the Genetic Diagnostics Commission (GeKo, at the Robert Koch Institute: www.rki.de/geko)
January 2022-2027 Member of the Genetic Diagnostics Commission (GeKo, at the Robert Koch Institute: www.rki.de/geko)