Members

Regina Müller is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bremen, Germany. She is passionate about investigating philosophical, ethical, and social aspects of technological advances, especially in medicine and healthcare. Furthermore, Regina has a strong interest in feminist-ethical perspectives and their interplay with digital developments. Her primary research areas include biomedical ethics, digital ethics, feminist philosophy and structural injustice. She is co-lead of the DGPhil AG ‘Philosophy of Digitality’, co-founder of the JMED-Network and the AEM working group “Feminist perspectives in bio- and medical ethics”.

Mirjam Faissner is a medical doctor and ethicist. She works as a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité – University Medicine Berlin. Her research interests include theories of epistemic and structural injustice in healthcare, feminist bioethics and intersectionality. She explores ethical questions in various fields, such as psychiatric ethics or clinical ethics, and combines philosophical analysis with qualitative and participatory research. Mirjam Faissner has been awarded the AEM Young Scholar Award and the DGPPN Prize for Philosophy and Ethics in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, among others. She is co-founder of the AEM working group “Feminist perspectives in bio- and medical ethics”.

Carlotta Hartmann, currently a medical student at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, is interested in issues in bioethics and medical ethics, particularly with regard to structural injustice. She previously completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford. In her thesis, she explored the effects of epistemic injustice on group belief.

Robel Afeworki Abay is Sociologist and Guest Professor of Disability Studies at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. His work focuses on intersectional disability justice, the intersections of ableism and racism, and Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory (DisCrit). His research also addresses gender and queer studies, Crip Technoscience, as well as decolonial theories. He is also engaged in participatory research on the topics of migration-, gender- and health-related inequalities. He is also a member of the Global Research Innovation Advisory Group, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA) for the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Health Equity and Community Wellbeing (CERC), Center for Inclusive Research Berlin (ZfIB), as well as the founder and executive director of Intersectional Disability Justice (IDJ).

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Muna AnNisa Aikins, a social scientist, author, and consultant, specializes in racism, health, development, and social justice. She is co-director and researcher of the Afrozensus research project at Each One Teach One e.V. (EOTO). Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Muna Aikins investigates biosocial pathways of racialized inequities and their impact on health outcomes.

Renate Baumgartner is Assistant Professor of Participatory AI at VU Amsterdam. She contributes to the inclusive development of AI in medicine using participatory methods and a sociological perspective. Renate Baumgartner is a sociologist and a pharmacist. She was a post-doc at the Centre for Gender and Diversity Research at the University of Tübingen and worked as a project manager in clinical development. Renate Baumgartner has published in the fields of (feminist) science and technology studies, sociology, medicine and life sciences.

Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/renate-baumgartner

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/renate-baumgartner-b1b221214/

Lisa Brünig is a researcher at the Institute for Ethics, History and Philosophy of Medicine at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and coordinator of the Competence Centre for Gender-Sensitive Medicine. She is also a research assistant at the Diversity Research Institute at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, where she is writing her doctoral thesis on abortion in the context of reproductive justice. Lisa Brünig is a member of the working group Feminist Perspectives in Medical and Bioethics and a member of the interdisciplinary research network ‘Politics of Reproduction’ PRINA.

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Tanja Gangarova works as a researcher at the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor at DeZIM-Institut in Berlin, Germany. Her work straddles the fields of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR), Participatory Action Research (PAR) and art-based methods, with a particular focus on migration and racism/racial inequalities in healthcare. She is interested in exploring the ways research can support social justice efforts. Tanja Gangarova is currently completing her PhD in Sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her dissertation focuses on the ethics of knowledge production using the example of Community-based Participatory Research with structurally marginalised communities.

Zami Khalil is a clinical psychologist (M.Sc.) and political education consultant. He is training as a psychological psychotherapist (depth psychology-based psychotherapy) in a university outpatient clinic. In his educational work, he provides training, lectures, and workshops on topics such as racism and mental health as well as empowerment, from a racism-critical, intersectional, and psychological perspective. His primary interest lies in the psychological consequences of racism and their transgenerational transmission among BIPoC.

Helen Kohlen is Professor of Palliative Medicine and Nursing Science at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen. Her research focuses primarily on feminist care ethics and palliative care. In 2023 she was a fellow of the Elisabeth List Fellowship of the University of Graz; in the winter semester 2022/23 she was a visiting professor at the Institute of Nursing Science at the University of Vienna. She is a spokesperson on the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Hospice and Palliative Care Association, a member of the editorial board of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine and the editorial board of Nursing Ethics. Previously, she was Chair of the Faculty of Nursing Science at the Philosophical-Theological University of Vallendar.

Lisa Malich explores the history of psychology, psychotherapy, and medicine, focusing on gender, intersectionality, and bioethics. Her topics include the history of pregnancy, hormones, and clinical psychology. She leads several third-party funded projects in the history of science and is a member of the Collaborative Research Proejct (SFB 1665) “Sex Diversity.”

Isabella Marcinski-Michel has been a research associate at the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine since May 2021. She is a post-doc in the DFG-research group “Medicine, Time and the Good Life”. Her research focuses on the ethics of reproductive medicine, philosophical and bioethical perspectives on pregnancy and birth, and the phenomenology of medicine and psychiatry, particularly in relation to eating disorders. Isabella Marcinski-Michel is a founding member of the working group “Feminist Perspectives in Bio- and Medical Ethics” of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM).

Awa Naghipour is a physician and researcher at the Chair for Gender-Sensitive Medicine at Bielefeld University. After studying medicine at the Charité and working in internal medicine, Awa Naghipour has focused on gender and discrimination sensitivity in healthcare. Special interests include transferring scientific knowledge into teaching, clinical, and political practice.

Julia Teschlade is a sociologist and a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Sociology of Labour and Gender Relations at Humboldt University Berlin. She was previously a doctoral researcher in the DFG International Research Training Group ‘Human Rights under Pressure. Ethics, Law and Politics’, a collaborative program between Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She completed her dissertation, titled ‘Contested Parenthood. Becoming a Gay Father Family through Surrogacy in Israel and Germany’, at HU Berlin. Her research focuses on (queer) feminist perspectives on re/productive labour, the sociology of intimacy, sexual and reproductive rights, reproductive technologies and social inequalities. Recently, she researched in the DFG-funded project ‘Ambivalent Recognition. Doing reproduction and doing family beyond the heterosexual family’.

Caleb Ward is a postdoctoral scholar (Walter Benjamin Fellowship) in philosophy at the University of Hamburg, where he leads a DFG-funded project titled “Moral Opposition and Political Agency under Oppression.” His research focuses on unjust social structures and their effects on agency and moral imagination, particularly through the lenses of Black feminism and transnational feminist philosophy. His book on the philosophical work of Audre Lorde is under contract with Oxford University Press. Link: https://www.calebward.xyz/.

Stefanie Weigold is a research associate at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and is pursuing a doctorate on issues of justice in the context of reproductive technologies. Her focus is on the ethical, social, political, and economic dimensions of ectogestative technologies, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of technology. She is a member of the organising team of the working group “Feminist Perspectives in Bio- and Medical Ethics” of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM) and received the AEM Young Scholar Award in 2024.

Merle Weßel is diversity officer at the City of Hanover. She studied history, literary studies, and European studies in Göttingen, Bielefeld, and Helsinki, earning her doctorate in area and cultural studies from the University of Helsinki. She was Caroline Miles Fellow at the Ethox Center of the University of Oxford. In 2024, she received her postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) with a feminist-ethical study on diversity in medicine and health care with the teaching qualification History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Oldenburg. Her work focuses on intersectionality, feminist ethics, diversity, and discrimination.

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Verina Wild is a professor of medical ethics and director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society at the University of Augsburg. Her teaching covers medical ethics, public health ethics, and global health ethics. Her research focuses on theories of health justice, and in 2024, she received the Thomas Lampert Prize for her book “Gesundheitliche Ungleichheit. Von Daten zu Taten.”

https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/med/profs/professur-fur-ethik-der-medizin/team/prof-wild/

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Julia Wurr (https://uol.de/en/english-american/staff/britishanglophone-and-american-literary-and-cultural-studies/julia-wurr) is Junior Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her current research project on reproductive imperialism explores the nexus between narrative, social, and biological reproduction in (post)colonial texts and contexts. Her research interests include postcolonial medical humanities, literary negotiations of biocapitalism and transhumanism, and Indian writing in English, and she is involved in research projects on migration studies and critical AI studies. Julia serves as the vice-president of GAPS, the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (https://g-a-p-s.net/), and she is an associate editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

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Amma Yeboah is a specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy with a focus on gender-sensitive mental healthcare. She is a psychodynamic supervisor with a focus on intersectionality-based, diversity-oriented and power-critical organizational development, and coaches physicians and psychotherapists on leadership. She offers training on empowerment and resilience strategies, and lectures on intersectional perspectives in psychiatry and psychotherapy.