Torsten Wilholt - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2023 - 2027 Co-director (with Mathias Frisch), Center for Advanced Studies (Kollegforschungsgruppe) “Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-based Information” (KFG 43), DFG, granted funds 4.0 Mio. € (first funding period)
  
• 2022 - 2025 Principal Investigator: DFG project WI 2128/7 “A Philosophical Approach to Biasing Mechanisms in Scientific Research”, individual funding as part of the cooperation agreement between the DFG and the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), (project partner in Bogotá: Prof. Manuela Férnandez Pinto), granted funds €300,000.
  
• 2015 - 2024 Chairperson, Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) “Integrating Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research” (GRK 2073), DFG, joint program of Leibniz Universität Hannover and Universität Bielefeld, granted funds 3.2 Mio. € (first funding period) + 4.6 Mio. € (second funding period)
  
• 2010 Habilitation, Fakultät für Geschichtswissenschaft, Philosophie und Theologie, venia legendi for Philosophy, Bielefeld University
  
• 2008 - 2009 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; research project “The Freedom of Scientific Research,” conducted at the University of Toronto
  
• 2003 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Bielefeld University Association
  
• 2002 Dr. phil. (PhD) in Philosophy. Grade: summa cum laude. Bielefeld University
  
• 2000 - 2001 Fellowship for a research stay at Columbia University, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  
• 1999 - 2002 Fellowship awarded by the Graduate Research Group “Development, Structures and Consequences of Science and Technology”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Bielefeld University
  
• 1993 - 1998 Fellowship awarded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)