Tabea Ott

Short CV

Tabea Ott is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics) at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen Nuremberg. She studied Protestant Theology, German Studies and Educational Sciences in Erlangen, Cluj-Napoca, Aberdeen and Munich and was a scholarship holder of the Max Weber Programme during her studies.

Since 2021, she has been working in the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre 1483 EmpkinS and the digiOnko project funded by the StMGP. In both projects, she is investigating the ethical implications of the use of digital technologies in healthcare, in particular the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. In July 2023, Tabea Ott was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Vitalities Lab at UNSW Sydney. In her doctoral thesis “Zwischen Unsichtbarkeit und Exponiertheit. Zu einer theologischen Ethik der Visibilität im digitalisierten Gesundheitssystem [Between Invisibility and Exposure. Towards a theological ethics of visibility in the digitalised healthcare system], which she completed at FAU in March 2025, she explored the effects of the use of digital technologies in the healthcare system on recognition, agency and vulnerability.

For her thesis “Wohltätiger Zwang in der Geburtsmedizin? Sozialanthropologische Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von Anerkennung und Vulnerabilität in der Geburtshilfe in theologisch-ethischer Perspektive” [Benevolent coercion in obstetrics? A social anthropological examination of the relationship between recognition and vulnerability in obstetrics from a theological-ethical perspective], she received the Ernst Wolf Prize from the Society for Protestant Theology (GET) in 2021 and the FAU award for her state examination. In 2022, she received the Young Scholar’s Paper Award at the 58th Annual Conference of the Societas Ethica in Zurich. Since 2024, she has been a fellow of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt).

Main field of research

• Medical ethics and ethics of artificial intelligence
• Recognition and vulnerability
• Ethics of visibility and ethics of attention
• Care ethics
• Feminist theology
• Ethics and Science Communication