born 1975 in Duderstadt in the Eichsfeld (Germany) 

Curriculum vitae

• Since February 2021 Professor of Christian Social Ethics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology.  
• 2013-2021 Professor of Media Ethics at the Munich School of Philosophy. 
• 2012 Habilitation (venia legendi for the subject Christian Social Ethics) at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster.
  Title of the habilitation thesis: Experience - Reason - Practice. On the Profiling of Christian Social Ethics in Conversation with Philosophical Pragmatism. 
• 2009 Research assistant (PostDoc) at the Institute for Christian Social Sciences, Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster. 
• 2006 Research assistant (PostDoc) at the Chair of Christian Social Teaching, University of Bamberg.  
• 2006 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) by the Faculty of Catholic Theology, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg.
  Title of the dissertation: Public Communication in the Knowledge Society. Social-ethical analyses  
• 2002 Research assistant (PraeDoc) at the Chair of Christian Social Teaching at the University of Bamberg  
• 2000 Completion of Magister Artium
  Title of Master's thesis: Ethics and Public Relations. Enquiries and Perspectives of Christian Social Ethics.
• 1995 Studies in Catholic Theology (M.A.), Communication Science and German Studies at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg

Scholarships, Awards

• 2006 Awarded the Kulturpreis Bayern by E.ON Bayern AG for the dissertation thesis 
• 2002 Doctoral scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation
• 2001 Doctoral scholarship from the Fazit Foundation, Frankfurt a.M.

 

Scientific associations

• since 2021 Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kommunikationswissenschaft (ÖGK) 
• since 2004 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPuK) – Section Communication and Media Ethics 
• since1996 Forum Sozialethik: Initiative junger Sozialethikerinnen und Sozialethiker 
• Societas Ethica, European Society for Research in Ethics 
• Gesellschaft katholischer Publizisten Deutschlands e.V. (GKP) 
• Internationale Vereinigung für Moraltheologie und Sozialethik

Functions and positions

• Since April 2021 Member of the Zentralkomitee der deutschen Katholiken (ZdK)
• sSince autumn 2011 advisor to the Journalistic Commission of the German Bishops' Conference (Publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz)
• Co-editor of the media ethics journal Communicatio Socialis  (www.communicatio-socialis.de). 
• 2018-2020 Expert member of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag on Artificial Intelligence. 
• 2009-2011 Collaboration in the scientific working group „Medienethische Schrift“ of the Journalistic Commission of the German Bishops' Conference
• since 2006 Member of the section "Social Ethics" of the International Association for Moral Theology and Social Ethics
• Since 2002 Coordinator of the Network Medienethik: Ein interdisziplinäres Gesprächsforum zu ethischen Fragen im Medienbereich - (An interdisciplinary discussion forum on ethical questions in the media sector (www.netzwerk-medienethik.de)