academia | teaching

I have been teaching since 2004 both at the universities of Leipzig and Zurich and in various non-academic contexts. You can find a list of the most important teaching obligations below.

Non-academic teaching (selection)

  • 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Conception of the Curriculum and Co-Teacher
    ICMM Course on Miltary Medical Ethics in Times of Armed Conflict
    Organised by the ICMM Reference Centre of Education of IHL and Ethics.
  • 2015, 2017, 2018 Fortbildungsveranstaltungen für medizinisches Personal der Bundeswehr. In Kooperation mit der Sanitätsakademie München, dem Bundeswehrzentralkrankenhaus Koblenz, und dem zebis Hamburg.
  • Since 2013: Several 1/2 or 1-day sessions on Military Medical Ethics during IHL courses of ICMM.
  • 2015/2016: Lecturer (selected events) at Military Academy at ETH Zurich MILAC
  • 2012: Advanced training for military chaplains. Lectures on Just War Theory.
    Organised by Katholisches Militärbischofsamt (Berlin)

Teaching at the University of Zurich

  • 2023: Seminar "The ethics of life and death" (Together with Philipp Reichling)
  • 2019, 2020, 2021: Lecturer basic course for medical students in medical ethics (Grundlagen der Medizinethik)
  • 2012, 2014, and 2016, 2019, 2020 2022: Lecturer at the continuing education curriculum Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics
    Module: Political Philosophy (Just War Theory and Humanitarian Interventions)
  • 2011-2014, 2019 Tutor at the continuing education curriculum Advanced Studies in Applied Ethics
    Modules: Bioethics, Clinical Ethics, Metaethics, Ethics in Finance

Teaching at the  University of Leipzig

  • Summer 2009 (MA)
    Universeller Präskriptivismus (R.M. Hare)
    --> Moral philosophy of R.M. Hare
  • Winter 2008/09 (MA)
    Kollektive moralische Verantwortung
    --> Collective moral responsibility
  • Summer 2008 (MA)
    Philosophische Perspektiven auf Gewalt und ihre Legitimation
    --> Violence and its moral evaluation
  • Winter 2007/08 (BA)
    Umkämpfte Begriffe der politischen Philosophie
    --> Introduction to political philosohpy
  • Summer 2006 (BA)
    Terror und Gegenterror (together with Prof. Dr. G. Meggle)
    --> Ethics of terrorism and counterterrorism
  • Summer 2005 (BA)
    R.M. Hare: Freiheit und Vernunft
    --> Introduction to the moral philosophy of R.M. Hare
  • Winter 2004/05 (BA)
    Gerechte und humanitäre Kriege
    --> Introduction to Just War Theory and its application to Humanitarian Interventions