Gisela Badura-Lotter was born in Hürth near Cologne. She studied Biology in Göttingen, Kiel and Tübingen and was a doctoral fellow in the research training group „Ethics in the Sciences” funded by the German Research Foundation at the Interdepartmental Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

From 1998 to 2003 she worked as junior scientist at the Chair of Ethics in the Biological Sciences in Tübingen, where she received her PhD in 2004 (Dr. rer. nat.) from the faculty of biology. Her dissertation on embryonic stem cell research was titled “Forschung an
embryonalen Stammzellen – eine klugheitsethische Technikfolgenabschätzung.”

From 2003 to 2005 she worked on a project on ethics in teacher education (“Ethisch-philosophische Grundlagen im Referendariat”), IZEW, University of Tübingen.

From 2006 to 2008 she had a post-doc position at the Faculty of Medicine, Département Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Éthique,
Professionnalisme et Santé, University of Brest (France) and worked within the EU-project "Chimeras and hybrids in comparative European and international research – scientific, ethical, philosophical and legal aspects", as well as member of the group of experts of ethics in the EU-project GENESKIN.

Since 2009 she is an assistant professor at the Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine at Ulm University.

gisela.badura [at] uni-ulm.de

Phone +49 731 500 39907