Since 1st of July 2016, Full Professor and Director of the Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University. Before that, since 2011, in the same function at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
Chairman of the Research Ethics Committee at Ulm University and the Commission "Responsibility in the Conduct of Science" (Good Scientific Practice), Head of Clinical Ethics, University Hospital Ulm, member of the Senate.
In 2014, Leibniz-Professor at the University of Leipzig. 2009–2014, member of the Junge Akademie. 2008, habilitation at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg. 2003, Bavarian Habilitation Grant of the Bavarian Ministry for Science. 2002, PhD at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Studies of medicine, classical philology and history.
Scholarship holder and now liaison professor of the German National Academic Foundation.
International visiting professorships in Rijeka (Croatia), Riga (Latvia), Łódź (Poland) and Moscow (Russia). 2018 Medal "Universitatis Lodziensis Amico" by the University of Łódź (Poland) and Honorary Professor of Semmelweis University, Budapest (Hungary). Corresponding Member 2019 of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and 2020 of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. 2021 Honorary Professor Saint Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University. 2021 Full Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. 2022 Corresponding Member Abroad of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
