Welcome to the website of COMPOST Collective. We are a research group at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Antwerp. We are an interdisciplinary collective with an emphasis on (bio)ethics. We are also embedded in our department's Center for Ethics.  

Issues our team members are interested in include links and relationships between health and environment, mind and body, biology and normativity (e.g. in relation to procreation and parenthood), (critical) disability theory and neurodiversity thinking, critical theory and embodied cognition, more-than-human life, the ethics of various developments in medicine and healthcare, ethics of prediction, and bioethics-in-science.

If you wonder what our name means, you can read our collective statement here. 

Find out more about the projects our members are working on here.

Among many other projects and research endeavours, the COMPOST Collective has grown out of the ERC-funded project NeuroEpigenEthics (2019-2023), which was led by Kristien Hens and brought together many researchers who are still part of our team today. Find out more about this project and its results on this page.