Hanna Metzen M.A.

Hanna Metzen studied Science Journalism (B.A.) at TU Dortmund University and Philosophy of Science (M.A.) at the University of Münster. Since 2021, she has been with the Department of Philosophy at Bielefeld University, where she is a PhD student in the DFG-funded Research Training Group 2073 “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research”. Her PhD project deals with trust in scientific policy advice. She also works as a freelance science communicator.

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.