Leonie Abstein | Center for Ethics | UZH

Leonie Abstein

Leonie Abstein

Doktorandin / PhD Candidate UFSP Human Reproduction Reloaded/ H2R
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Academic Associate

Address: Institut für Sozialethik
Room number: ZOA E12

E-Mail

Research interests:

Bio- and medical ethics: Reproductive medicine, abortion and vulnerability
Ethics of life forms (Lebensformen) and relational ethics: Family, (intended) parenthood and unfulfilled desire to have children
Didactics of ethics
Feminist theology and philosophy
Ecumenical, interreligious and intercultural theology

Short CV

Since 08/2024	Research assistant in a ‘transdisciplinary innovation’-project: Development of a transdisciplinary teaching module for applied ethics, Institute of Social Ethics, University of Zurich
Since 09/2023	PhD candidate in the University Research Priority Program “Human Reproduction Reloaded” \| H2R, subproject 1 “Normativity of Human Reproduction”, Institute of Social Ethics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
06-07/2023	Research assistant in project "Oral History”, Basel Mission, Switzerland
05/2023	M. Th. Protestant Theology, Universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig, and Rome (Pontificial Gregorian University, Waldensian Faculty of Theology, i.a.) Topic of the Master's thesis: “Ethical views of the Abrahamic religions Judaism, Christianity and Islam on abortion” Scholarship of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Germany (2019-2023)
01/2022-06/2023	Student assistant for network “Theology, Digitalisation and Ethics” of Protestant Church in Germany (EKD), Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST), Heidelberg, Germany
07/2019	B. Th. Protestant Theology, Augustana Hochschule Neuendettelsau, Germany

Dissertation project

Moral dimensions of the unfulfilled desire to have children, intended parenthood, and reproductive medicine from a theological-ethical perspective (working title)

Memberships and engagement

Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM):

Member of the working group “Ethical questions at the beginning of life” (AEM)
Member of the Young Medical Ethics Network (JMED)

Swiss Society for Biomedical Ethics (SGBE)

Member of the Early Career Bioethicists Network (ECBN)

Member and representative of the Freundeskreis Melanchthon Zentrum Rom e.V. at the General Assembly of the Melanchthon Centre - Protestant Centre for Ecumenical Studies in Rome (since 2022)
Protestant Church of Basel-Stadt

Delegate at the Women and Gender Conference of Protestant Church in Switzerland (since 2024)
Youth Delegate at the Continental Assembly Europe of Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (since 2024)

Protestant Church in Baden

Youth Delegate at the Continental Assembly Europe of Mission 21, Basel, Switzerland (since 2020)
Member of the working group "Europe and ecumenical theology” (2022-2024)