Professor Silke Schicktanz is full professor at the Dept. of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen. http://www.egmed.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=21&L=1.

She is Board Member of German Academy of Medical Ethics and member of CFRS (Committee of Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science https://www.icsu.org/about-us/governance/committees/committee-on-freedom-and-responsibility-in-the-conduct-of-science-cfrs of ICSU.

Her research focuses on cross-cultural studies of bioethics, lay-expert-communication, ethical and social assessment of life sciences and biomedicine, concepts of responsibility, methods of public engagement.

her international research profile is based on several research fellowships, e.g. at UC Berkeley, San Francisico State University, US, Safra Center at Tel Aviv University, the University of Leeds, UK,  Delhi University, School of Economics, and Jawaharlal Nehru University Delhi in India.

She has initiated, conducted and lead several interdiscipliniary and international research consortia, funded by e.g. the European Union, the German Research Council, the Volkswagen Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German-Israeli Research Foundation, the Swedish Reichsbank Jubileums Fond, German Academic Exchange Programme, and the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research.