Univ.-Prof. Dr. Giovanni Rubeis
Head of
Division of Biomedical and Public Health Ethics
Research projects
Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Giovanni Rubeis conducts research on questions of the ethics of digitalisation in medicine, nursing and mental health, prenatal and reproductive medicine and genome editing. His research focuses on the ethical aspects of digital applications in individualised medicine, with a particular focus on applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine and care. In particular, he focuses on the connection between epistemological and ethical aspects that arise from increasingly data-driven healthcare with the goal of individualisation. Of particular interest is the concept of epistemic justice, i.e. the inclusion of groups that are underrepresented by epistemic practices in the context of Big Data and AI and are therefore at risk of being marginalised in digitalised healthcare. Furthermore, Prof. Rubeis conducts research on the transformation processes that digitalisation entails in terms of practices, structures and relationships in healthcare.
Prof. Rubeis is co-founder and coordinator of the working group "Digitalisation and Health" of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM). He is a member of the Commission for Scientific Integrity as well as the Commission for Equality and the Advancement of Women of the KL and the Ethics Committee of the University for Continuing Education Krems. In addition, Prof. Rubeis leads ethics training courses of the Austrian Medical Association and the German Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists (BPtK).