Vetmeduni: Guest Researchers

Ethics

Guest Researchers

Konstantin Deininger, MA

I have been researching the concept of co-creature since 2018 and am critically examining it from an animal ethics and moral philosophy perspective as part of my dissertation. I studied Human Resource Education and Management (B.Sc.) at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and Ethics (M.A.) at the Hochschule für Philosophie SJ in Munich. Since 2019, I am a doctoral fellow of the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation. More about me

Katharina Dieck, MA

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Since March 2018, I have been a staff member at the Messerli Research Institute. I successfully completed a BA in both Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Vienna. In December 2022, I successfully completed the Master's program in Philosophy. More about me

Konstantin Eckl, MA

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I am a PhD student at the University of Vienna and a visiting scientist at the Vetmeduni Vienna. My main interests are in metaethics, ethical realism and the ethical implications of scientific naturalism. I am also part of the project "Possible Life" led by Tarja Knuuttila at the University of Vienna. More about me

Ruadhán J. Flynn, MRes

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I am currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Ethics of Human-Animal Relations at the Messerli Research Institute, a PhD student at the University of Vienna, and a Prae-Doc in the research group The Limits of Imagination: Animals, Ethics, Anthropomorphism (University of Innsbruck). My dissertation project, "Whose Standpoint Matters? Cognitive Disability, Knowledge and Community," is supervised by Prof. Martin Kusch and Prof. Robert A. Wilson. More about me

Dr. Martin Huth

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I studied philosophy and history in Vienna. In 2007, I completed my dissertation on medical ethics from a phenomenological perspective. Since 2008 I have been a lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, and from 2011 to 2023 I worked as a Post Doc at the Messerli Research Institute. I teach ethics, applied ethics, political theory, philosophy of science as well as phenomenology. Since 2023 I am a visiting researcher at the Messerli Research Institute. More about me

Mariessa Long, MSc MSc

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I studied Interdisciplinary Master in Human-Animal Interactions (IMHAI) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna until 2020. My science background also includes a Bachelor's degree in Molecular Life Science and a Master's degree in Infection Biology. Since 2020 I am part of the Messerli Research Institute and my interdisciplinary PhD project focuses on criteria and models of decision making in the therapy of old and/or chronically ill horses. More about me

Dr. Susana Monsó

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at UNED (Madrid). My work focuses on the socio-cognitive capacities of animals and their ethical implications. I am a visiting researcher at the Messerli Research Institute, working on Dr. Benz-Schwarzburg's project "Morality in Animals: What it means and why it matters". More about me

Dr. Carlo Salzani

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I studied philosophy at the University of Verona (Italy) and received a PhD in Comparative Literature and Culture at Monash University (Australia). From 2008 to 2010, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn (Germany), focusing in the following years on biopolitics, posthumanism, and animal philosophy. Since November 2021, I have been working at the Messerli Research Institute as part of the FWF project "The Limits of Imagination: Animals, Empathy, and Anthropomorphism". More about me

Birte Wrage, PhD

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I studied Rehabilitation Education (BA) at TU Dortmund University and Applied Ethics (MA) with a focus on animal ethics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. I did my PhD from 2018 to 2022 in a project on the role of touch and the sense of touch in the context of animal moral capacity part of the FWF project Morality in Animals: What It Means and Why It Matters (PI: Judith Benz-Schwarzburg). More about me

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