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Junior Professorship for Medical Ethics

The junior professorial chair for medical ethics focusing on digitalisation (Tenure Track) is dedicated to researching the ethical aspects of health sciences and medicine against the background of the growing use of digital technologies, big data and automation.

Digitalisation is causing a continuous transformation of healthcare and having extensive influence on research, medical practice and care. It brings diverse potential but also new challenges. The professorship is set up to investigate ethical questions connected with these developments; it also considers ethical aspects of gene technology.

Prof. Dr Robert Ranisch

Prof. Dr Robert Ranisch

Head of the Junior Professorship for Medical Ethics

phone: +49 331 977 213841 robert.ranisch(at)fgw-brandenburg.de

Jennifer Ginder, B.A.

Jennifer Ginder, B.A.

Assistant Dean’s Office, Prof. Ranisch, Prof. Müller

phone: +49 331 977 297214 jennifer.ginder(at)fgw-brandenburg.de

Dr. rer. biol. hum. Corinna Klingler

Dr. rer. biol. hum. Corinna Klingler

Research Associate

phone: +49 331 977 213842 corinna.klingler(at)fgw-brandenburg.de

Dr. med. Gustav Ferdinand Preller

Dr. med. Gustav Ferdinand Preller

Research Associate

phone: +49 331 977 297214 gustav.ferdinand.preller(at)uni-potsdam.de

Katharina Trettenbach

Katharina Trettenbach

Research Assistant

Aaron Warnecke, B.A.

Aaron Warnecke, B.A.

Research Assistant

aaron.warnecke(at)uni-potsdam.de

Research focuses

Biological and medical ethics
Technical philosophy and digital ethics
Risk and action theory
Organisational ethics

Selected publications of the junior professorship. Further publications can be found on the team’s websites.

Almeida, M. & Ranisch, R. (2022). Beyond safety: mapping the ethical debate on heritable genome editing interventions. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9.
Klingler, C., Wiese, L., Arnason, G., & Ranisch, R. (2022). Public Engagement With Brain Organoid Research and Application: Lessons From Genome Editing. AJOB Neuroscience, 13(2), 98-100.
Ohlmeier, S., Klingler, C., Schellartz, I., Pfaff, H. (2022). Having a Break or Being Imprisoned: Influence of Subjective Interpretations of Quarantine and Isolation on Boredom. In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19(4):2207.
Ranisch, R. (2021). Liberale Eugenik?: Kritik der Selektiven Reproduktion. J. B. Metzler Verlag.
Ranisch, R. (2021). Consultation with Doctor Twitter: Consent Fatigue, and the Role of Developers in Digital Medical Ethics. In: American Journal of Bioethics.
Ranisch, R. / Riedel, A. / Bresch, F. / Mayer, H. / Pape, K. D. / Weise, G. / Renz, P. (2021). Das Tübinger Modell der „Ethikbeauftragten der Station“: Ein Pilotprojekt zum Aufbau dezentraler Strukturen der Ethikberatung an einem Universitätsklinikum. in: Ethik in der Medizin.
Klingler, C., Mertz, M. (2021). REIGN: Use of Research Evidence to Inform Guidance regarding Normative-Ethical Topics – Rationale, Framework & Case Studies. Discussion Paper commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Ehni, H.J. / Ranisch, R. / Schweda, M. / Wahl, H.-W. (2021). Older Adults and COVID-19 – Protection from Direct and Indirect Harm. In: Competence Network Public Health on COVID-19
Burmeister, C. / Iller, A. / Ranisch, R. / Brand, C. / Staib, T. / Müller, U. (2021). Jenseits der Klinik: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen zum Ethiktransfer in dezentralen Einrichtungen des Gesundheitswesens am Beispiel der BruderhausDiakonie Reutlingen. Ethik in der Medizin.

Joint faculty

The University of Potsdam, the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg