Claudia Pawlenka

Claudia Pawlenka is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf. Her academic career spans multiple institutions, including Goethe-University Frankfurt, Tuebingen University, and Humboldt University Berlin.

• PhD from Humboldt University Berlin (2001)
• Habilitation at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf (2009)

Her research focuses on ethics and philosophy in sports, particularly utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, bioethics, doping, naturalness, and human enhancement. She explores the philosophical foundations of sports ethics, including fairness, body philosophy, emotion theories, and gender/intersexuality issues.

Recent publications analyze ancient ethical roots in modern sports, naturalness in sports, animal ethics, and E-Sport categorizations. Her work bridges sports ethics with broader bioethical debates on human enhancement and commodification.

Dr. Pawlenka has received significant awards including the Humboldt Award (2001) and DOSB Science Award (2009/2010). She led DFG-funded projects on human enhancement and doping ethics, and held a guest professorship at Tuebingen University (2015).

Her academic contributions include books and articles in series like "ethica", as well as chapters on fairness, emotion theories, and the future of ethics in sports and bioethics.