Leonie Abstein is a PhD candidate in the URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R, sub-project 1 Normativity of Human Reproduction at the University of Zurich.
Leonie’s research interests include bio- and medical ethics of reproduction, concepts of vulnerability, family and feminist ethics, ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural theology. Her PhD project focuses on vulnerability in the context of intended parenthood and unvoluntary childlessness from a theological-ethical perspective.
Education
- PhD candidate URPP Human Reproduction Reloaded H2R, subproject 1 – University of Zurich, Switzerland (since 2023)
- M. Th. Protestant Theology, University of Heidelberg, Germany (2023)
- One semester at the University of Leipzig, Germany (2020-2021)
- Three semesters at Melanchthon Centre for Ecumenical Studies – Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Pontifical University Santa Croce, Waldensian Faculty of Theology, Rome, Italy (2019-2021)
- B. Th. Protestant Theology, Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau, Germany (2017-2019)
Work and research experience
- Member of working group "Ethical questions at the beginning of life” - Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM) (since 2024)
- Research assistant in project "Oral History“- Basel Mission, Switzerland (2023)
- Student assistant for network "Theology, Digitalisation and Ethics“ of Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) - Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST), Heidelberg, Germany (2022-2023)
- Member of working group "Europe and ecumenical theology” - Protestant Church in Baden, Germany (since 2022)
- Youth Delegate of Protestant Church in Baden at Continental Assembly Europe - Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (since 2020)
- Internship - Friedensgemeinde Pforzheim, Germany (2020)
- Fellowship - Heinrich Böll Stiftung Germany (2019-2023)
