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 a postdoctoral University Assistant at the Chair for Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna. Additionally, I am a member of the Young Academy of the Heidelberger Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the German Committee Future Earth, the Young Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld and an associate member of the Center for Environmental and Technology Ethics Prague.

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