Dr. Hanna Metzen

Hanna Metzen is a philosopher of science working at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Konstanz. Prior to that, she worked at the Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, where she was a PhD candidate in the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2073 “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research”. Her PhD project dealt with trust in scientific expertise. She is also interested in science communication from a philosophical perspective. Occasionally, she works as a freelance science communicator herself.

Hanna Metzen is interested in trust in scientific expertise and scientific policy advice: what it is that grounds trust in scientists and scientific advisors, or whether we should always value trust in scientific expertise or sometimes value distrust instead. In her work, she combines philosophy of science with approaches from epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy.