• Since 2015 member of the Institute for Educational Science (by University of Basel and FHNW)
• 2013 Research Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, Cambridge, Mass
• Since 2011 Professor at FHNW in Basel
• 2009 Research Fellow at Swansea University.
• Habilitation thesis at the University of Basel 2006, since 2010 professor for Philosophy at the University of Basel
• Since 1999 Lecturer at FHBB, later University of Applied Sciences FHNW, lectureships at the Universities in Freiburg i. Br., Fribourg and St. Gallen
• 1999-2000 member of the Graduate college of the interdisciplinary research center "International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)" of the University of Tübingen
• 1999 Research fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of Cardiff
• 1994-1999 assistant professor at the University of Potsdam and Journalist in Berlin
• Studies in Philosophy, History and History of Art at the Universities of Bonn, Zürich (lic. phil.) and Basel (Dr.)

 Member of

• "Schweizerische Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (SVRSP)"
• "Historische Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Berlin"

• Lectures in Philosophy, Economic ethics, Environmental Ethics, Globalization
• Responsible for the FHNW-Ringvorlesung in Basel, www.fhnw.ch/ringvorlesung (= lecture series)
• Mentoring of students' works (B.Sc. and M.Sc.)
• Lecturer in Public Governance and Economic Ethics in the Institute's programmes
• Café Dialogue in Basel: Presentations and moderated discussions with elderly people

Main Topics

• Ethics in Companies and Society

Research topics: Applied Ethics, particularly in the areas of Medicine, Animal, Environment and Economics as well as phenomenology, particularly philosophy with regard to the lived body.

New in May 2022

New in July 2021

New in August 2020

New in July 2019

New in August 2018