Roeser, Prof.dr. S. (Sabine)

Prof.dr. Sabine Roeser, Philosophy Departments of TU Delft and University of Twente

Contact details:
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 5
2628 BX Delft
The Netherlands
Telephone:       +31 (0)15 278 8779
E-mail:             S.Roeser at tudelft.nl

Twitter: @SabineRoeser

E-mail is the easiest way to get in touch with me.

Personal Information: I am Professor of Ethics at TU Delft (Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor) and at Twente University (Socrates Chair, part-time). I have been working at Delft University of Technology since September 2001. My main research interests are in risk and emotion and in ethical intuitionism. I am editor in chief for Springer's Handbook of Risk Theory (co-editors Rafaela Hillerbrand, Martin Peterson and Per Sandin). I frequently organize conferences with leading scholars. Together with Maureen Sie I am the coordinator of the Dutch research group on metaethics and methodology. I am regularly interviewed for popular media, and I am a member of the 'Filosofisch Elftal' (Philosophers' team) of the Dutch newspaper Trouw. I am a member of the COGEM, a committee that advises the Dutch government about genetic modification. I am managing director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology.

Research topics: My research covers theoretical, foundational topics concerning the nature of moral knowledge, emotions and evaluative aspects of risk, but also urgent and hotly debated public issues on which my theoretical research can shed new light. Examples of such issues are nuclear energy, information on infant feeding (together with dr. Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist) and IVF (together with Sofia Kaliarnta and dr. Jessica Nihlén Fahlquist).

Research projects: From July 2010-June 2015 I am head of a research group on Moral Emotions and Risk Politics for which I have received a VIDI-grant for excellent researchers, worth 800.000 Euros (plus a 100.000 Euro Aspasia-grant), from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). From September 2009-June 2010 I was a NIAS-fellow, where I have worked on a project on how to include emotions in the design process of  risky technologies. From April 2005 through July 2009 I have worked on the research project: Emotions and Technological Risks: Emotions as a Normative Guide in Judging the Moral Acceptability of Technological Risks, for which I obtained a prestigious VENI-grant from NWO.

Education: I obtained my PhD in 2002 at the Free University, Amsterdam, for my thesis Ethical Intuitions and Emotions: A Philosophical Study. During my PhD-research, I spent two terms abroad: in the Fall term 2000 I studied at the University of Reading with Jonathan Dancy, in the Spring term 1999 I studied at the University of Notre Dame. I hold an M.A.-degree in Philosophy (cum laude, 1997) and an M.A.-degree in Political Science (1998), both from the University of Amsterdam. I did my B.A. in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht (1994; some of my paintings of that time have now been incorporated in the cover of my book Moral Emotions and Intuitions ).

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

My talk at TEDx Delft:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js6n7iwl2Co&feature=player_embedded

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Toddler poetry

'Ich weiss alles.' Mae Roeser (3 years old), March 2011

'We may not destroy the rainbow, because then the police will come. If we destroy the rainbow, the builders will repair it. You can also climb on the rainbow.' Parker Roeser, November 2008

'If the moon falls into the water, it will be dark'. Parker Roeser, December 2007