Research Focus

  • Ancient Practical Philosophy
  • Ethics (theoretical and applied), Bioethics, and Disability
  • Social- and Political Philosophy
  • The Philosophy of Human Rights
  • Philosophy of Technology

Research Stays

  • Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University (with Udo Schüklenk, Will Kymlicka), Canada (2009-2010)
  • Department of Philosophy, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (10.2015)
  • Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford (with Julian Savulescu), UK (09-11.2017)
  • Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Canada (01-04.2018)
  • An Foras Feasa, University of Maynooth, Ireland (07-08.2018)
  • Oxford Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford (with Nick Bostrom), UK (03.2019)
  • Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology (with Tanel Kerikmäe), Estonia (05.2019)
  • Department of Philosophy, University of Maynooth (with Philipp Rosemann), Ireland (01.-14.11.2019)
  • Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford (with Jeff McMahan), UK (30.11.-08.12.2019)
  • Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institut Stockholm (with Gert Helgesson), Sweden (03.2020)
  • Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK (01.10.-30.11.2021)
  • Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University (with Sven Nyholm), The Netherlands (postponed)
  • Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology (with Tanel Kerikmäe), Estonia (14.-31.05.2022)
  • Academy of International Affairs NRW, Germany (01.10.-15.12.2022)