Ass.-Prof. Dr. Tabea Ott, B.A.

Office hour

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Vice Head of the Institute - Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine

Schenkenstraße 8-10, Room 6OG 006

A-1010 Wien

Tel.: +43-1-4277-32705

tabea.ott@univie.ac.at

Biography

Tabea Ott has been an assistant professor of medical ethics and diaconal studies and deputy director of the Institute for Ethics and Law in Medicine at the University of Vienna since 2026. Previously, from 2021 to 2025, she was a doctoral candidate and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Systematic Theology II (Ethics) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), including in the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 1483 EmpkinS. From July to August 2023, Tabea Ott was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Vitalities Lab at UNSW Sydney. Since 2025, Tabea Ott has been an associate researcher in the “Digital Religion(s)” cluster at the University of Zurich and, since 2026, at FAU. She studied Protestant theology, German language and literature, and education (2019: B.A., 2021: 1st state examination) in Erlangen, Cluj-Napoca, Aberdeen, and Munich.

For her work, she has been awarded the Ernst Wolf Prize by the Society for Protestant Theology (GET) (2021), the Young Scholar's Paper Award from the Societas Ethica (2022), first place in the Science Prize for Dialogue between Natural Science and Theology from the Görres Society and Apfelbaum Foundation (2025), and several prizes from Friedrich-Alexander University (2021 and 2023).

Among other things, she was a scholarship holder of the Max Weber Program (2016-2021), the Ariadne Program of Friedrich-Alexander University (2021-2022), the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), an institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (2024-2025), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2026).

 

 

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Research Interests

  • Medical ethics and ethics of artificial intelligence
  • Ethics of visibility and ethics of attention
  • Theories of recognition
  • Vulnerability & care
  • Intersectional feminist theology and theory
  • Ethics and science communication
  • Diaconal science
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Memberships

  • Since 2026 Scientific Advisory Board Association for Informatics and Medicine Austria (AIM)
  • Since 2025 Sage Editorial Board Member (Humanities)
  • Since 2023 Founding and management of the Young Societas Ethica network for young researchers
  • 2022: Member of the selection committee for the Max Weber Program
  • Since 2021 Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM)
  • Since 2021 Society for Protestant Theology (get)
  • Since 2021 Ethics Network in the Protestant Regional Church in Bavaria (ELKB)
  • Since 2021 Working group neth:KI – Theology & AI Network
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Publications

Monographs

 

 

Journals with double-blind peer review

  • Ott, Tabea (2025): Invisibility and Exposure: Challenges of Using AI in Healthcare. Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik 71, Nr. 4, S. 488–99. DOI: 10.30965/29498570-20250143. brill.com/view/journals/zfme/71/4/article-p488_4.xml.
  • Ott, Tabea (2025): Purity cultures and the ideology of ‘bodies as property’ as form of sexual violence. In: Theology & Sexuality, S. 1–20. DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2025.2525613. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13558358.2025.2525613
  • Ott, Tabea (2025): Eine sozialanthropologische Untersuchung wohltätigen Zwanges in der Geburtsmedizin. In: Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik. S. 1-22. DOI: 10.30965/29498570-20250115.
  • Ellerich-Groppe, Niklas; Ott, Tabea; Puzio, Anna; Weigold, Stefanie; Müller, Regina (2024): Queering healthcare with technology? – Potentials of queer-feminist perspectives on self-tracking-technologies for diversity-sensitive healthcare. In: ZEMO. Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie. DOI: 10.1007/s42048-024-00203-3.
  • Krauss, Daniel; Engel, Lukas; Ott, Tabea et al. (2024): A Review and Tutorial on Machine Learning-Enabled Radar-Based Biomedical Monitoring. In: IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology. DOI: 10.1109/OJEMB.2024.3397208.
  • Tretter, Max; Ott, Tabea; Dabrock, Peter (2023): AI-produced certainties in health care: current and future challenges. In: AI Ethics. DOI: 10.1007/s43681-023-00374-6.
  • Ott, Tabea; Dabrock, Peter (2023): Vulnerable Integrity – Theological-Ethical Reflections on Human Integrity and Integrity Violations. In: De Ethica. S. 47-60. DOI: 10.3384/de-ethica.2001-8819.237347%20.
  • Tretter, Max; Samhammer, David; Ott, Tabea; Dabrock, Peter (2023): Towards an Ethics for the Healthcare Metaverse. In: JMv. DOI: 10.57019/jmv.1318774.
  • Ott, Tabea; Heckel, Maria; Öhl, Natalie; Steigleder, Tobias; Albrecht, Nils C.; Ostgathe, Christoph; Dabrock, Peter (2023): Palliative care and new technologies. The use of smart sensor technologies and its impact on the Total Care principle. In: BMC palliative care 22 (1). DOI: 10.1186/s12904-023-01174-9.08/22.
  • Ott, Tabea; Dabrock, Peter (2022): Transparent human – (non-) transparent technology? The Janus-faced call for transparency in AI-based health care technologies. In: Frontiers in Genetics 13. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.902960.

 

 

Contributions in anthologies with quality assurance procedures

  • Ott, Tabea (2025): Theologie als Grenzkompetenzvermittlung. In: Dabrock, Peter et al. (Hg.) Grenzen von Vermittlung – Vermittlung von Grenzen. Ethische, theologische und gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Erkundungen. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer.
  • Ott, Tabea (2025): Von dynamischen Grenzen und unsichtbaren Machtachsen: Intersektionale Theoriebildung und ihre Impulse für eine theologische Sozialethik angesichts algorithmischer Klassifizierung. In: Ott, Tabea et al. (Hg.) Solidarität. Intersektionale Dimensionen feministisch-theologischer Ethik. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Research in Contemporary Religion, Bd. 40). S. 29-48. DOI: 10.13109/9783666502033.29.
  • Ott, Tabea; Bleher, Hannah; Jacobs, Charlotte; Jäger, Sarah; Kunkel, Nicole (2025): Solidarity intersectional. An introduction. In: Ott, Tabea et al. (Hg.) Solidarität. Intersektionale Dimensionen feministisch-theologischer Ethik. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Research in Contemporary Religion, Bd. 40). DOI: 10.13109/9783666502033.7.

 

Editing of anthologies

  • Dabrock, Peter; Tretter, Max; Ott, Tabea; Hahn, Michael (2025) (Hgg.): Grenzen von Vermittlung – Vermittlung von Grenzen. Ethische, theologische, gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Erkundungen. Stuttgart, Kohlhammer. DOI: 10.17433/978-3-17-045770-6.
  • Ott, Tabea; Bleher, Hannah; Kunkel, Nicole; Jacobs, Charlotte; Jäger, Sarah (2025) (Hgg.): Solidarität. Intersektionale Dimensionen feministisch-theologischer Ethik. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Research in Contemporary Religion, Bd. 40). DOI: 10.13109/9783666502033.

 

Conference Proceedings

  • Moradi, Hamid; Flaucher, Madeleine; Ott, Tabea; Ringgold, Veronika; Eskofier, Björn; Leutheuser, Heike (2024): Can HCI Lead the Way? Workshop on Exploring Conscious AI. Mensch und Computer 2024 - Workshopband. DOI: 10.18420/muc2024-mci-ws12-113. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. MCI: Workshop. Karlsruhe. 1.-4. September 2024.

 

Miscellaneous

  • Ott, Tabea; Flaucher, Madeleine; Willberg, Judith, Dabrock, Peter (2025): Einstellungen zur sekundären Datennutzung im Projekt digiOnko. Ergebnisse einer modifizierten Delphi-Studie. DOI: https://open.fau.de/handle/openfau/37286. (Datensatz)
  • Hahn, Michael; Tretter, Max; Ott, Tabea; Dabrock, Peter (2025): Grenzen der Vermittlung – Vermittlung von Grenzen. Bericht zum Symposium „Grenzen der Vermittlung“ vom 17. Bis 18. Oktober 2024 in Erlangen anlässlich des 60. Geburtstags von Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock. In: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik. (Tagungsbericht)
  • Ott, Tabea; Jütte, Kathrin (2025): Was die Daten sichtbar machen. In: Zeitzeichen. Das Projekt, 01. Juni 2025. https://zeitzeichen.net/node/11856, zuletzt geprüft am 29.07.2025. (Interview)
  • Ott, Tabea (2021): Doing Gender – Ästhetische Inszenierungen auf der Schwelle: Anne-Berenike Rothstein (Hg.): Kulturelle Inszenierungen von Transgender und Crossdressing. Grenz(en)überschreitende Lektüren vom Mythos bis zur Gegenwartsrezeption. 2021. In: Open Gender Journal, 5. (Rezension)
  • Ott, Tabea (2021): Was ein pinker Handschuh mit Kirche zu tun hat. Hg. v. y-nachten. Online verfügbar unter https://y-nachten.de/2021/05/was-ein-pinker-handschuh-mit-kirche-zu-tun-hat/, zuletzt geprüft am 01.05.2021. (Beitrag)
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