Martin Huth

Martin Huth is a Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Innsbruck (since 2023) and former Lecturer at the University of Vienna (2008–2023). He leads the FWF-funded project 'The Limits of Imagination: Animals, Empathy, Anthropomorphism' (2021–2024). His research focuses on applied ethics (biomedical ethics, human-animal interactions, environmental ethics), political theory, disability studies, and phenomenology. He holds a PhD from the University of Vienna (2007), specializing in biomedical ethics from a phenomenological perspective.

Research interests include vulnerability theories, empathy, and political phenomenology. His work bridges ethics, social theory, and phenomenology, addressing topics like animal vulnerability, pandemic ethics, and institutional impacts on embodied experience. Recent publications analyze vulnerability in crises, veterinary responsibility in antibiotic resistance, and the ethical dimensions of human-animal relations.

He served on Austria’s National Commission for Animal Experimentation (until 2024). His research integrates interdisciplinary approaches, emphasizing empirical and normative dimensions of vulnerability across health systems, disability studies, and environmental ethics.