Jakob Ortmann

Jakob Ortmann is a doctoral research fellow at CELLS, working on philosophy of science, public policy and technology. Trained as an economist and philosopher, his focus is on the ethics and epistemology of model development and deployment in climate change economics and public health. Before coming to Hannover he studied in Bayreuth and Cambridge.

Jakob works on a dissertation about epistemic, political and conceptual issues surrounding performativity of science. Trust in science here plays a central role: if scientists come to be regarded as manipulative, this becomes a serious threat to democratic decision making, even challenging the scientific status of performative sciences as a whole.