Leonie N. Bossert

I am an Environmental, Animal, AI, and Conservation Ethicist with a research focus on theories of interspecies and intergenerational justice, as well as the normativity of Sustainable Development, including research on sustainable AI.

I currently work as an Assistant Professor at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities at Tübingen University. Additionally, I am a member of the Young Academy of the Heidelberger Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, of the German Committee Future Earth, and of the Young Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld.

In fall 2022, I was a guest researcher at the Princeton University Center for Human Values.

Area of Specialization:

Moral Theory, Theories of Justice, Animal Ethics, Environmental Ethics, AI Ethics, Theories of Sustainable Development, Microbial Ethics, Conservation Biology and Conservation Ethics

Area of Competence:

Food Ethics, Urban Ethics, Theories of Environmental Racism and Justice, Moral Psychology

Artificial Intelligence, Conscious Machines, and Animals: Broadening AI Ethics

CONFERENCE AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Oct 6 & 7)

Walter-Witzenmann Prize 2022

Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften