Sigrid Graumann

Sigrid Graumann, born in 1962, is a biologist, human geneticist and ethicist. She completed her first doctorate in human genetics in 2000, focusing on ethical questions surrounding somatic gene therapy, and a second doctorate in philosophy at Utrecht University in 2009 on human-rights ethics and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. From 2000 to 2005, she served on the German Bundestag’s Commission of Inquiry on the Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine. In 2011, she became Professor of Ethics at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Rhineland-Westphalia-Lippe in Bochum; in 2017, she became its rector. She joined the German Ethics Council in 2016.