Let us introduce you to our team members! To find out more about a researcher, click on their picture to open their University of Antwerp researcher page. 

Kristien Hens is professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp. She loves microbes and the sea. She teaches courses in bioethics, media ethics and Japanese concepts of nature. Her research focusses on concepts of biology, ethics of biotechnology, bioethics-in-science, transdisciplinarity, environmental ethics and ethics of psychiatry. She wrote Chance Encounters and Towards an Ethics of Autism.

Nele Buyst is doing a Phd project that explores the potential of aesthetic practices to heal modern relations to surroundings. She is interested in feminist arts-based research methods, ecofeminism and posthumanist philosophy. Alongside her research she publishes poetry and is an editor of the magazine for culture and critique Rekto:Verso. She is involved in Metrodora and the Centre for Ethics.