Christopher Coenen
Biography
Christopher Coenen is a political scientist and has been a researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2003. There he is also head of the research group »Life, Innovation, Health, and Technology«. Topics at ITAS include information and communication technologies, neurotechnologies, transhumanism, human enhancement, and the increasing demarcation between humans and technology in general. Among many other projects, he was co-coordinator of the transnational research project FUTUREBODY from 2017 to 2022 and has advised the German Bundestag and the European Parliament on these topics several times since the 2000s. Coenen is editor-in-chief of the journal »NanoEthics: Studies of New and Emerging Technologies« since 2013.