Lea Nickel, M.Sc.
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Lea Nickel, M.Sc.
Georg-August-University
University Medical Center Göttingen
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Humboldtallee 36
37073 Göttingen
Mail: lea.nickel(at)med.uni-goettingen.de
Room: 2.109
Lea Nickel is a philosopher and has been a research associate at the Department for medical Ethics and the History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen since June 2025. She is a member of the ethics research group at CAIMed. Her research interests lie in the fields of ethics of AI, empirical ethics and epistemic injustice.
Professional Positions
- Since 06/2025: Research fellow at the Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University Medical Center Göttingen
- 10/2021 - 05/2025: Research assistant at the Head Office of the Research Campus STIMULATE, Magdeburg
- 04/2022 - 04/2024: Research assistant at the Junior Professorship for Neurophilosophy (Jun. Prof. Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- 09/2020 - 05/2021: Research assistant at the “Lesson-Learned”-Project at the Research Campus STIMULATE, Magdeburg
Education
- 10/2021 - 12/2024: Philosophy-Neuroscience-Cognition (M.Sc.), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- 07/2022 - 11/2022: Semester abroad, EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia
- 10/2018 - 09/2021: Philosophy-Neuroscience-Cognition (B.A.), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- Nickel, L. (2026). Reden ist Silber, Zuhören ist Gold. Phänomenologische Psychopathologie im Dialog mit epistemischer Ungerechtigkeit, Traugott Bautz, Germany
- Nickel, L. (2026): Epistemic Injustice in dialogue with phenomenological psychopathology on Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare,epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2026/06/epistemic-injustice-in-dialogue-with.html
- Mind the gap: The need for ethical scrutiny of promissory narratives of AI in precision medicine”, World Congress of Bioethics 2026, 09. July 2026, Johannesburg, South Africa
- “Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry: When Patients Are Not Heard”, lecture seriesn “Women in Medicine”, 05. May 2026, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
- “(Future) AI Patients’ Trajectories: Ethical & Epistemic Aspects”, German-Dutch Workshop: Rethinking AI in Medical Practice, 19. January 2026, Volpriehausen, Germany
- “Talking is silver, listening is gold. Phenomenological psychopathology in dialogue with epistemic injustice”, 26th International Network of Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference, 30. May 2025 , Leipzig, Germany
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