Inge Fiedler

Inge Fiedler is a Researcher in the Department of Law and Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Her research focuses on:

• Organ Donation/Transplantation
• Medical Anthropology
• Study of Religion
• Ethics in Practice
• Medical Ethics
• Bioethics
• Medical Law
• Religion
• Pluralism

She joined the Department in February 2021 as a PhD Candidate in the Minerva Research Group dedicated to the Ethics of Exchange: The Regulation of Organ Donation and Transplantation. Fiedler earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Master of Arts (MA) in the Study of Religion(s) from the University of Leipzig, where her Master’s thesis explored German theologians’ strategies of argumentation in bioethical debates about CRISPR-Cas9. She was awarded the Faculty Prize from the University of Leipzig’s Faculty of History, Art and Area Studies in 2019 and held a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) from 2018 to 2019.

Prior to her current role, Fiedler worked as a trainee at Wissenschaft im Dialog, a Berlin-based NGO for science communication, where she coordinated the Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation (2019) and conceptualized its digital iteration (2020). She also served as a research assistant and tutor at the Institute for the Study of Religion(s) at the University of Leipzig, contributing to the publication Religion und Wahnsinn um 1900: Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstermächtigung (2017) and assisting with the DFG-funded project When Healing Fails (2018).

Scientific Awards:

• Faculty Prize, University of Leipzig (2019)
• Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Scholarship (2018–2019)