Dr. Katrin Grüber
Head of the Institute Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft
Curriculum Vitae
- Education in Biology and Chemistry at the University of Tuebingen to qualify as a teacher (1976 to 1982)
- PhD in Biology at the Department for Developmental Physiology, University of Tuebingen (1983 to 1987); stay at the University of East Anglia, UK (1985 to 1986)
- From 1990 to 2000 Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine Westfalia; 1990 Head of the Committee Man and Technology; 1995-2000 Deputy speaker of the Parliament
- From 1995 to 2000 Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf
- In 2001 Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Nursing Science, University of Witten-Herdecke
- Member of the Ethics Commission of the German Nurses Association (DBfK)
- Director of the Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft, Berlin
Special interests and background
- Political science
- Technology assessment
- Research policy on the national and European level
- Dialogue between science and civil society
- The role of experts, lay people, disabled and chronically ill people and their relatives in decision making process