Rafaela Hillerbrand

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Rafaela Hillerbrand (born September 1, 1976 in Gießen ) is a German physicist and philosopher. She has been working as a professor for technical ethics and philosophy of science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2015 .

Life

Rafaela Hillerbrand graduated from the Hans-Sachs-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1995 . From 1995 to 2001 she studied physics with the minor subjects chemistry and fluid mechanics as well as philosophy with the minor political science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . She graduated with a diploma in physics and a master's degree in philosophy. From 1997 to 1998 she spent a semester at the University of Liverpool in Physics and Mathematics .

From 2001 to 2002 Hillerbrand worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 2002 to 2005 she received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation , with the help of which she received her doctorate in philosophy in Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2003 . In 2004 she received the Lilli-Bechmann-Rahn-Prize of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. From 2003 to 2004 she was a research fellow at the Chair for Theoretical Physics at the University of Münster and from 2006 to 2008 Research Fellow at the University of Oxford in Great Britain. In 2007 she received her doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Münster. From 2009 to 2012 she was junior professor in applied technology ethics and headed the Ethics for Energy Technologies working group in the Human Technology Center (HumTec) at RWTH Aachen University . In the summer semester of 2010, she took on a substitute chair for philosophy of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart . From 2012 to 2015 she was Associate Professor at the TU Delft . Since 2015 she has been professor for technical ethics and philosophy of science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and is dedicated to assessing complex forms of knowledge.

In 2008 Rafaela Hillerbrand received the Ingrid zu Solms Foundation's Science Prize. She has been a member of the Junge Akademie at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina since 2009 .

Rafaela Hillerbrand is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing and a member of the scientific advisory board of GAIA magazine .

Publications

  • with S. Roeser: Towards a Third 'Practice Turn': An Inclusive and Empirically Informed Perspective on Risk. In: M. Franssen, P. Vermaas, P. Kroes, A. Meijers: Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn , Springer, 2016
  • with S. Roeser, M. Peterson, P. Sandin: Handbook of Risk Theory. Epistemology, Decision Theory, Ethics and Social Implications of Risk. Springer, 2012
  • with S. Roeser, M. Peterson, P. Sandin: Essentials of risk theory. Springer, 2013
  • with C. Reitinger, M. Dumke, M. Barosevcic: A conceptual framework for impact assessment within SLCA. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 16 (4), 2011; Pp. 380-388.
  • Order out of chaos? A Case Study in High Energy Physics. Studia Philosophica Estonica 5 (2), 2012; Pp. 61-78.
  • Technology, ecology and ethics. A normative-ethical basic discourse on dealing with science, technology and the environment. Mentis, Paderborn 2008.
  • with M. Ghil: Anthropogenic climate change: Scientific uncertainties and moral dilemmas. In: Physica D. 237, 2008, pp. 2132-2138.
  • with J. Bec and M. Cencini: Clustering of heavy particles in random self-similar flow. In: Physical Review E. 75, 2007, 025301 (R).
  • with R. Friedrich: Renormalized perturbation theory for Lagrangian turbulence. In: S. Barth, A. Kittel, M. Oberlack, J. Peinke (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence. Springer, Berlin 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rafaela Hillerbrand , website at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; accessed on May 26, 2020.
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SURNAME Hillerbrand, Rafaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and philosopher in applied technology ethics
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH to water