Andrew J. Barnhart
Research Fellow
Andrew J. Barnhart is a Research Fellow at the Department of (Social-) Ethics at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Bonn.
Associated Researcher of SIMTWIN
Andrew J. Barnhart is a researcher associated with the ERC SIMTWIN project, led by Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun.
Short Bio
- Since 2023: Research Fellow at the Department of (Social-) Ethics, Bonn University
- Since 2023: Associated researcher for the ERC SIMTWIN project
- 2019-2023: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow & Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven
- 2016-2019: Adjunct Philosophy & Biology Instructor at Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD, USA
- 2015-2016: Research Assistant in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London
Research Focus
- Ethics of digital twins
- Ethics of organoids
- Ethics of novel biotechnology
- Disability bioethics
- Philosophical bioethics
Publications
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Get to know Andrew
Andrew J. Barnhart is a Research Fellow at the Department of (Social-) Ethics.
Previously, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow and Doctoral Researcher at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law at KU Leuven in Belgium. During his studies, he was part of the Horizon 2020 International Training Network and Consortium, OrganoVIR: Organoids for Virus Research. His focus was on exploring the various ethical issues and considerations of organoid models in biomedical research.
Andrew also has experience in designing and teaching courses of Introduction to Philosophy, Ethics, Biomedical Ethics, Symbolic Logic, and Human Ecology at Frederick Community College in the United States.
In his current work, Andrew explores both ethical issues and embodiment with digital twins in precision medicine contexts. His research is supported by the European Research Council under the SIMTWIN project, led by Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun.
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