Julia Hermann

Julia Hermann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Twente. She is affiliated with the 4TU.Ethics and Technology center and serves as vice-chair of the Organisation of Ethicists in the Netherlands (VvEN). Her research focuses on the ethical implications of emerging technologies, particularly biomedical innovations like CRISPR-Cas9 and artificial wombs, and she explores how these technologies disrupt fundamental concepts of human nature, agency, and moral responsibility.

Her academic background includes a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute (2011), with a thesis titled "Being Moral: Moral Competence and the Limits of Reasonable Doubt." She has held research and teaching positions at institutions such as the European Intra-University Centre of Human Rights and Democratisation, Maastricht University, Utrecht University, and Eindhoven University of Technology.

Her work spans themes like techno-moral change, the role of context in ethics, and the philosophical relevance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later works. She is currently funded by the NWO gravitation programme "The Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies" and contributes to public discourse via the blog Justice Everywhere.