Prof. Dr. habil. Gerhard Schreiber

Chair of Protestant Theology

Appointed AI Officer of HSU/UniBw H

Co-Speaker of the AI Institute HSU-AI
https://www.hsu-hh.de/iai/en/

Head of the AI Ethics Research Hub
www.hsu-hh.de/theevs/ai-ethics

Deputy Ethics Officer of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Academic Career

• 1997–2004 Studies of Protestant Theology (Parish Ministry Track) in Neuendettelsau, Munich, and Heidelberg
• 2004 Church Examination (ELKB – Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria)
• 2005–2010 Visiting Researcher at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark; Translator for Danish
• 2009–2016 Research Associate, Chair of Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 2012 Doctorate (Dr. theol.) with a dissertation on the concept of faith in the young Kierkegaard
• 2015 Visiting Professor, Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
• 2016–2023 Senior Lecturer (tenured), Institute for Theology and Social Ethics (iths), Technical University of Darmstadt
• 2022 Interim Professor of Systematic Theology & Hermeneutics, University of Bonn
  Habilitation (Dr. theol. habil.) with a thesis on sexuality and violence; Appointment as Privatdozent (Associate Professor) in Systematic Theology at Goethe University Frankfurt
  Award of the Venia Legendi (teaching license) in Systematic Theology, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 2023 Acting Professor of Systematic Theology and Science-Culture Dialogue, Institute for Ethics and Theology (IET), Leuphana University Lüneburg
  Appointment to a W3 Professorship in Protestant Theology with Special Focus on Social and Technology Ethics, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (accepted)
• Since 10/2023 Professor of Protestant Theology with Special Focus on Social and Technology Ethics, Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
• 2024 Offer for a W3 Professorship in Systematic Theology, Technical University Dortmund (declined)

Current research projects

• Ontology of the Virtual
• Artificial Intelligence Ethics (AI Ethics)
• Generative AI
• Power and Abuse of Power
• Sexuality and Violence
• Responsible Algorithmic Decision-Making (RADM)
• The Trustworthy AI Lab at Helmut Schmidt University (HSU/UniBwH)

Completed research projects

• ZEVEDI project group Responsible Algorithmic Decision-Making in the Workplace (PI) (11/2022-4/2024)
• ZEVEDI-Ad-hoc-Forschungsvorhaben Discourses of Disruptive Digital Technologies Using the Example of AI Text Generators (KI:Text) (Wissenschaftliche Leitung) (4/2023-12/2023)
• ZEVEDI-Projektgroup Data Sovereignty (PI) (11/2020-12/2021)
• DFG-Cooperation Evolution’s Rainbow: Transitory Theology and Human Sexuality mit Yiftach Fehige (University Toronto) (3/2020-8/2023)
• Digitization of Kierkegaard’s Library (DiBiKi) in cooperation with the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center & Royal Library, Copenhagen, and The Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA (2010-2016)

Memberships

• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• Arbeitskreis für theologische Wirtschafts- und Technikethik e.V. (ATWT)
• Arbeitskreis Gender der Evangelischen Akademie Frankfurt (2018-2020) (Vorsitz)
• Armut und Gesundheit in Deutschland e.V.
• Association for Evidence-Based Gender Health, Switzerland (Vorstand)
• Bildungsnetzwerk der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Group (CARV)
• Comprehensive Systematic Review Training Program (JBI)
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Health Consumer Ethics e.V. (Vorstand)
• Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV)
• Fachgesellschaft Geschlechterstudien e.V. (2015-2023)
• Fachgruppe Gendergerechtigkeit der EKHN (2015-2024)
• Freundinnen und Freunde der Augustana-Hochschule e.V.
• Freunde und Förderer der Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg e.V. 
• Gender_Queer-Netzwerk, Technische Universität Darmstadt (2019-2023)
• Hamburg Virtual Initiative for Science & Technology in AI (Hamburg VISTA) 
• Hanna-Jursch-Jury der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) (seit 2016) (stellv. Vorsitzender)
• HSU-AI Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
• JBI Centre for Gender Health Care (Director)
• The GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) Working Group
• The Trustworthy AI Lab at Helmut Schmidt University (HSU/UniBwH) (Spokesperson)
• Think Tank Ethische Nutzung von KI (VK:KIWA) (seit 2023)
• Verein zur Förderung Feministischer Theologie in Forschung und Lehre e.V.
• Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie e.V. (WGTh)

Expert activities (selection)

• Advisory Board, Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook (KSYB) (De Gruyter)
• Advisory Board, Kierkegaard Studies Monograph Series (KSMS) (De Gruyter)
• Advisory Board, Filozofia
• Advisory Board, Acta Kierkegaardiana – Supplement
• Advisory Board, Danish Golden Age Studies (Brill)
• Advisory Board, Texts from Golden Age Denmark (Brill)
• Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst
• Family Forum (Uniwersytet Opolski)
• JBI Evidence Synthesis
• Central European Research Institute of Søren Kierkegaard (Ceri), Slowakei
• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Discipline Filosofiche (Università di Bologna)
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

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Letzte Änderung: 2. September 2025