Leonie N. Bossert

I am a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Ethics, Theory and History of the Life Sciences at Tübingen University, as well as a member of the Young Academy of the Heidelberger Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, and of the German Committee Future Earth.

In fall 2022, I was a guest researcher at the Princeton University Center for Human Values with the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics.

My research focuses on normative and applied ethics (AI, animal, environmental, conservation, bio-ethics) as well as on theories of interspecies and intergenerational justice and the normativity of Sustainable Development, including research on sustainable AI.

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

Walter-Witzenmann Prize 2022

Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften