Susanne Hahn conducts research at CAIS on philosophical and ethical questions of digitalisation. She is working on setting up a network on digital ethics & is the contact person for philosophical and ethical questions at CAIS. Her other main areas of work are rationality, normativity and business ethics.
Susanne Hahn’s position is financed by project funds from the Mercator Foundation.
Curriculum vitae
- Since January 2021: Member of the founding advisory board of the DZM (German Centre for Future Mobility) of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
- Since 2020 wiss. Research associate at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- 2019 Fellow at CAIS with the project “Attribution of responsibility in times of >artificial intelligence<“
- 2017 Awarded the German Prize for Philosophy and Social Ethics by the Max Uwe Redler Foundation
- Professorships and lectureships at the universities of Duisburg, Bochum, Dortmund and Düsseldorf as well as at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
- 2015 Appointment as associate professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- 2008 Habilitation at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (venia legendi: philosophy); habilitation thesis: “Rationality – A Mapping”
- 1998 Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Essen; title of dissertation: “Überlegungsgleichgewicht(e) – Prüfung einer Rechtfertigungsmetapher” (Equilibrium of Consideration – Examination of a Metaphor of Justification)
- 1984 – 1992 Studied History, Philosophy and German at the University of Essen