Martin Weiss - DNA and Immigration

Project Members

Jacob Guggenheimer
Subproject Austria (Klagenfurt)

Dr. Torsten Heinemann
Subproject Germany

Prof. Thomas Lemke
Project coordinator and subproject Germany

Dr. Dr. Ursula Naue
Subproject Austria (Vienna)

Dr. Anna-Maria Tapaninen
Subproject Finland

Dr. Martin G. Weiss
Subproject Austria (Klagenfurt)

Dr. Martin G. Weiss is working on a Habilitation thesis on the bioethical and biopolitical implications of biotechnologies at the University of Klagenfurt, collaborates with the interdisciplinary Research Platform Life-Science-Governance of the University of Vienna, and is co-director of the trilateral ELSA-GEN Project "DNA and Immigration: Exploring the social, political and ethical implications of genetic testing for family reunification" funded by the German and Austrian Ministries of Research and the Finnish Academy of Sciences. He participated in the project "Development – Sustainability – Responsibility" funded by the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento/Italy) focusing on environmental ethics and biotechnology, 2004-2005. From 2005 to 2008 he was Project Leader of the stand-alone project “The Dissolution of Human Nature. The Philosophical Discourse on Biotechnology between Essentialism and Emancipation” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Contact:
Universitaet Klagenfurt
Department of Philosophy
Universitaetsstr. 65-67
A-9020 Klagenfurt, Austria
Tel.: +43 (0) 463 2700 2111
Web: http://sites.google.com/site/martingerhardweiss/home
Email: martin.weiss [at] uni-klu.ac.at