prof.dr. HAE (Hub) Zwart

Biography

**Hub Zwart is full professor at Erasmus School of Philosophy** and served as ESPhil Dean from 2018 up to 2025. He studied philosophy (cum laude) and psychology (cum laude) at Radboud University Nijmegen, worked as research associate at the Centre for Bioethics in Maastricht (1988-1992) and defended his thesis in 1993 (cum laude). He was appointed as research director of the Centre for Ethics (Radboud University Nijmegen, 1992-2000) and in 2000 became full Professor / Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the *Faculty of Science*. In this position, he was appointed as founding director of the *Institute for Science in Society* (ISiS, 2005-2018) and as academic director of the *Centre for Society and Genomics* (CSG, 2004-2013) funded by the *Netherlands Genomics Initiative* (NGI). In 2018, he became Dean of ESPhil. He published 20 books (8 in English), >175 academic papers (single or first author). He presented >200 international lectures, most of them invited, was visiting scholar at the Hastings Centre (NY) and visiting professor at St. John’s (Canada), Nagasaki (Japan), Seoul (Korea) and Ghent (Belgium). So far, 31 doctoral candidates supervised by him defended their PhD thesis.  and established at his department. He is editor-in-chief of the *Library for Ethics and Applied Philosophy* (SPRINGR, LOET). The focus of his research is on philosophical and ethical issues in the emerging life sciences with a focus on genomics and post-genomics fields such synthetic biology, nanomedicine and brain research, but he is also interested in research integrity and academic authorship. Special attention is given to the use of genres of the imagination (novels, plays, poetry) in research and education. [Wordpress][] [Academia.edu][] [Google Scholar][] [Wordpress]: https://zwarthub-rhfwl.wordpress.com [Academia.edu]: https://eur.academia.edu/HubZwart [Google Scholar]: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y2lSlT0AAAAJ&hl=en