Ethics and medicine

Christine Woopen is a Hertz Professor for Life Ethics at the University of Bonn and Director of the Center for Life Ethics and the “Haus für junges Denken”. Before moving to the University of Bonn, she was executive director of the interfaculty Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics and Social Sciences of Health (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 national and international 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.