Christoph Rehmann-Sutter

He is holding a professorship for theory and ethics in biosciences at the Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies at the University of Lübeck in Germany.

This was followed by a second training in philosophy and sociology (licentiate 1988) at the Universities of Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau.

His doctoral degree in philosophy he received 1995 from the Technical University of Darmstadt with a book on what biologists ‘do’ (in practical and ethical terms) when they describe life (Leben Beschreiben.

During this time, he worked as a lecturer for environmental philosophy and bioethics in the research group of Werner Arber at the University of Basel.

In 1996 he founded the Unit for Ethics in the Biosciences at the University of Basel, in collaboration with the fellow bioethicist Jackie Leach Scully .

During the academic year 1997/1998 he was a research fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) at the University of California, Berkeley.