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Julia Mirkin

Research focus

  • Ethics of Science
    • Societal trust in science
  • Philosophy of Medicine
    • Concepts of disease

Education

Since 2020 Doctoral studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Aspired degree: Dr. phil.
2017-2020 Master programme at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Master of Arts (Philosophy): “Concepts of Disease and their Practical Implications – A Case Study of Cancer Screening and Prevention”.
2013- 2017 Bachelor programme at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and Political Science): „Value Neutrality, Social Responsibility and the Production of Disease”.

Employment

Since 2020 Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
2018-2020 Research assistant at Stammzellnetzwerk.NRW
2015-2020 Student assistant (Tutor for (among others) Logic, Philosophy of science, Moral concepts of the modern period) at the Department of Philosophy at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Publications

  • On the role of trust in the denial of scientific knowledge. In: Christian, A. & Gawel, I. (Eds.): Science Denial and Science Communication. De Gruyter: Berlin. (being published).

Funding

September 2022-March 2023 Funding of the Citizen University Project: "Scientific Blogging: Experts in Science Policy Discussions" with Dr. Alexander Christian. Funding amount: 17.000€.
April-September 2022 Solicitation of the Citizen University Project: "Scientific Blogging on Genome Ethics" with Dr. Alexander Christian. Funding amount: 17.000€.

Talks

17.08.2022 Trust in Research on Human Germline Genome Editing. GWP 2022.
29.10.2021 Trust in Research on Human Germline Genome Editing. SAS Conference 2021 - Trust in Science.
10.09.2021 Specifying Clinical Expertise and the Demands for its Transition and Implementation in Clinical Practice, SOPhiA 2019.
17.08.2020 CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing and the concept of sensation bias (with Alexander Christian), ECAP 2020.
18.09.2019 Normativity in the Concept of Disease, SOPhiA 2019.
13.09.2018 Social Responsibility and Mercenary Scientists, SOPhiA 2018.
13.09.2017 Disease Mongering: An Analysis of its Methods and Mechanisms, SOPhiA 2017.
30.06.2017 Demokratisierung und Ordnung von Forschungsprozessen durch Digitalisierung, 12. Gummersbacher Kolloquium.

Teaching

2023 Philosophy and Transgender (with Dr. Alexander Christian) 
  Discussion rounds and presentations on the seminar "Philosophy and Transgender" (with Dr. Alexander Christian)
2022/23 Scientific blogging: experts in science policy discussions (Student blog articles)
  Conflicts of interest in research
  Ethics of climate change
2022 Scientific blogging about genome ethics (Student blog articles)
  Ethics of Human Genome Editing
  Exercise on ethics of science I
2021/22 Argumentation
  Exercise on ethics of science II - Moral integrity and social responsibility in science
2021 Exercise on ethics of science I - objectivity of science
  Exercise on ethics of science II - Moral integrity and Social Responsibility in Science
2020/21 Exercise on ethics of science I - objectivity of science
2020 Exercise on logics I
2019/20 Exercise on logics I
2018/19 Exercise on logics I
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