I am an applied ethicist and Research Director and Assistant Professor with the Philosophy Section at the University of Twente.
My work combines ethics of technology and institutional ethics, developing a pluralist method to offer analyses and critiques of responsibility. This techno-institutionalist approach allows me to explore conceptual and normative issues relating to security, health, information and technology ethics, and to offer critiques of regarding the ethical, social, and political responsibilities of military, intelligence, national security, clinical and public health, information technology, and policy making institutions.
I have published on national security and military ethics, the ethics of surveillance technologies, ethics of intellgience institutions, care for enhanced veterans, ethics and the internet of things, and ethics of cybersecurity. I am currently working on public health and disordered information, the ethics of connected vehicles, and trust in informationally mediated environments. My recent books include the single authored book Cognitive Warfare: Grey Matters In Contemporary Political Conflict, the co-authored book The Ethics Of National Security Institutions: Theory And Applications and the coedited book The Ethics of Surveillance In Times Of Emergency
I teach on research ethics, leadership, ethics of disruptive technologies, computer ethics, and have taught on just war, national security ethics, health and security, bioethics, and political philosophy.
Expertise
Social Sciences
- Actors
- National Security
- Intelligence (National Security)
- Surveillance
- Policy
- War
Psychology
- Research
Computer Science
- Vulnerabilities
Organisations
Publications
2024
Research profiles
Courses academic year 2025/2026
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2024/2025
- 191612680 - Computer Ethics
- 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201300089 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201300283 - Master's Thesis Ethics and Technology
- 201800148 - Good technology for users and society
- 201900179 - Master Thesis PSTS-PA
- 202000501 - Governing in a Tech-Based Society
- 202000576 - Research Proposal Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202000579 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202100274 - The Craft of Public Adm. Research
- 202100275 - Bachelor Thesis MS&T
- 202100276 - Moral Leadership
- 202400101 - Bachelor Thesis IBA
- 202400106 - Bachelor Thesis IBA, DD with Múnster
Courses academic year 2023/2024
- 191612680 - Computer Ethics
- 201300088 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201300089 - Master's Thesis PSTS
- 201800148 - Good technology for users and society
- 201900179 - Master Thesis PSTS-PA
- 202000501 - Governing in a Tech-Based Society
- 202000551 - Technology, Organisation & People (TOP)
- 202000553 - Business Operations Management (BOM)
- 202100274 - The Craft of Public Adm. Research
- 202100275 - Bachelor Thesis MS&T
- 202100276 - Moral Leadership