Staff and associated researchers
Ulrik Nissen, Head of Centre, Associate Professor, PhD. - Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics
Ulrik B. Nissen has worked extensively with a range of different areas within the field of bioethics. His PhD concerned environmental ethics and grew from his interest in the relation between nature and reason as the foundation of ethical normativity. In recent years he has been engaged with the discussion of stem cell research and the question of human enhancement. He is currently working partly on a textbook in bioethics for schools of secondary education and a debate oriented book on the normativity of the body.
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Svend Andersen, professor, dr.theol - Section for Systematic Theology - personal homepage
Torben E. Andreasen, assistant professor, MA research degree – The Health, Humanity and Culture Group - personal homepage
Frederik Dagnæs-Hansen, associate professor, PhD. - Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology - personal homepage
Morten Dige, associate professor, PhD. -Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas
Morten Dige is professor of applied ethics and has conducted research on bioethical issues concerning especially euthanasia, emerging technologies of reproduction and biotechnological enhancement of humans in a constant interaction with more abstract questions concerning ethical etheory and method, criteria for moral status etc. In addition to a range of related topic within the area of business ethics. Morten Dige has recently contributed with two chapters on practical ethics to Moderne etik – en grundbog, which is being published by Aarhus University Press.
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Mette Ebbesen, postdoc, PhD - Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics
Mette Ebbesen is currently working on a postdoc project concerning empirical bioethics and a continuation of principle-oriented ethical evaluation of nano technology. Mette is originally graduated as a molecular biologist in 2003 with a thesis on genetic therapy through RNA interference. Concurrently with her studies in molecular biology, she took a subsidiary subject in philosophy and a master in applied ethics. In 2009 she finished her PhD dissertation, which concerned empirical bioethics and an ethical assessment of genetic therapy through RNA interference. At the same time, Mette had a position as research assistant and has in collaboration with her fellow authors developed a principle-based approach to the ethical evaluation of nano technology.
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Jes Harfeld, postdoc, PhD - Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics
Jes Harfeld is primarily engaged with ethical dilemmas in the areas of food production, environment/nature and human interaction with both wild and domestic animals. His PhD dissertation focused on the problems concerning welfare and ethics in modern agricultural practices – pertaining to individual relations as well as the influence of societal systems. Furthermore, he conducts research in the field of medical ethics and is presently working on the ethical aspects of human enhancement technologies in medicine (EPOCH).
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Louis Klostergaard, teaching assistant professor - Department of Science Studies - personal homepage
Kees van Kooten Niekerk, associate research professor – Section for Systematic Theology
Kees van Kooten Niekerk (f. 1946) is associate professor of ethics and the philosophy of religion at the Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus. Bioethics is one of his areas of interest. He has published Teologi og bioetik. Den protestantisk-teologiske vurdering af bioteknologien i Norden 1972-1991(Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 1994). Currently he is working on a project concerning complexity and ethics in relation to genetic counselling (See CBN Lab Essay: ’Genetic counselling without counselling?’)
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Anna Julie Rasmussen, MSc, PhD fellow - Centre for Bioethics and Nanoethics
Anna Julie Rasmussen is working on a PhD project which includes the ethical dilemmas in nanoscience and nanotechnology with a special focus on nano medicine. Julie has a MSc in nanoscience and did her MA thesis on the toxicology of nano particles. In her MA thesis she combined her work on human cells in the laboratory with theoritical work on ethical issues. Julie has, furthermore, worked as a research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) where she worked on the concept of Scientific Social Responsibility.