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 Institute for History and Ethics 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.
Career
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 - 09/2022: Philosophy-Neuroscience-Cognition (B.A.), Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg