Nicole C. Karafyllis

Nicole C. Karafyllis (born 22 April 1970 in Lüdinghausen, West Germany), is a German-Greek philosopher and biologist. Since 2010, she is Department Chair and Philosophy Professor at the TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig/Brunswick Institute of Technology (Germany).

Nicole Christine Karafyllis was born in Germany as the child of a German mother and a Greek father. From 1989 to 1994, she studied biology and philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen. In 1991, she was a visiting student at the University of Stirling in Scotland (UK). She received a doctorate at the University of Tübingen in 1999 at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities. Her Habilitation in philosophy was completed at the University of Stuttgart in 2006, dealing with the topic Phenomenology of Growth. Philosophy and scientific History of productive Life between Nature and Technology. For ten years, 1998–2008, she has been working at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and was a scholar of Günter Ropohl. In 2007 she has been a Visiting Professor for Applied Philosophy of Science at Vienna University (Austria). 2008 - 2010, she moved to the United Arab Emirates and was Full Professor of Philosophy at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). In fall 2010 she was senior research fellow of the International Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna (Austria). She returned to Germany in summer 2010 to become Department Chair of the Philosophy Department at Technische Universität Braunschweig. Since 2013, she regularly visits the philosophy department (arts+science-group) at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City for research purposes (projects on Spanisch-German philosophy in the early 20th century and beyond).

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