01.08.2021New members of the URPP H2R

Welcome Anina Meier who joined the URPP H2R as PhD candidate in the sub-project 3 Ethnography of Human Reproduction in Single Case Studies in Threshold Areas and Michael Braunschweig, who joined the URPP H2R as a postdoctoral researcher in the sub-project 1 Normativity of Human Reproduction, a warm welcome!

Anina’s research interests include science and technology, future-making and anthropology of good life. In her current (ethnographic) research, she focuses on potentialities of CRISPR. Through participant observation and interviews with health care professionals and scientists, including those involved in the URPP H2R, this study seeks insight into the aspirations and anxieties involved in the making or editing of human life.

Michael's research interests include Family ethics, conceptions of the good life, bio- and medical ethics of reproduction, Christian social ethics, religious ethics. In his current research, he examines how medical and biotechnological developments are changing the understanding of human reproduction and the relevant relationships, rights, duties, and responsibilities involved from a theological-ethical perspective.