Christiane Woopen#
Photo: Reiner Zensen
| Membership Number: | 5115 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://ceres.uni-koeln.de |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7148-6808 |
| Twitter: | @CWoopen |
| Linkedin: | https://de.linkedin.com/in/christiane-woopen-5752b6145 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 Heinrich-Hertz-Chair at the University of Bonn, Heads of the Center for Life Ethics, University of Bonn
- 2018 Co-Chair, Data Ethics Commission, German Government
- 2017 Chair, European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies
- 2014 - 2016 President, Global Summit of National Ethics / Bioethics Committees
- 2013 Executive Director, Cologne Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health
- 2012 - 2016 Chair, German Ethics Council, after having been Vice Chair 2008-2012
- 2011 - 2019 Vice-Dean for Academic Development and Gender, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
- 2010 - 2017 Member, International Bioethics Committee, UNESCO
- 2009 Head, Research Unit Ethics, Institute of the History of Medicine and Medical Ethics
- 2009 Full Professor at the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne
- 2006 Member, Ethics Committee Medical Faculty, University of Cologne (Vice-Chair since 2010)
- 2001 - 2008 Member, National Ethics Council Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Health literacy
- Neuroethics
- Health and society in the digital age
- Quality of life
- Genome editing
- Aging and demographic change
- Ethics and theory of medicine
- Personalised medicine (Precision Medicine, Stratified Medicine)
- Reproductive medicine
- Stem cell research
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class
- 2014 Member European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2014 - 2016 President of the Global Summit of National Ethics / Bioethics Committees
- 2010 - 2017 Member International Bioethics Committee UNESCO
- 2001 - 2016 Member of the National / German Ethics Council
