Anna Rifat Klassen

Anna Rifat Klassen is a Research Associate at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. She specializes in the philosophy of life sciences, feminist science criticism, and the history of science in the 20th century, with a focus on moralization processes in technology debates.

• PhD in Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (2023)
• MA in Philosophy of Forms of Knowledge, University of Kassel (2017)
• BA in Philosophy (major) and German Studies (minor), University of Kassel (2013)

Her research explores the intersection of ethics, science communication, and biotechnology, particularly analyzing moralizations in debates about genetic engineering in agriculture. Recent work examines how scientific controversies are framed in public discourse and the role of societal values in technological development.

Key trends in her recent publications include interdisciplinary analysis of genetic engineering regulation, methodological approaches to science communication, and critiques of subjectivity in ethology. She actively presents at international conferences on technology ethics and philosophy.