Kerrin Artemis Jacobs

Kerrin Artemis Jacobs is an research associate at the Institute of First-Person-Research (IEPF).

I work as a practical philosopher and enjoy taking an interdisciplinary approach. For years, my work has centered on the themes of loneliness and the philosophy of medicine, particularly the philosophy of psychiatry. As a consultant for educational management and project development, I am currently also addressing issues related to digitalization and AI in various contexts of educational work.

I am leading the PPME Practice Network (Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Medical Ethics), an interdisciplinary practice group of medical professionals, philosophers, and psychologists who follow the Witten ideal of humane medicine with “heart and hand.”

• Social philosophy

• Loneliness³ – intra-, inter-, and transpersonal aspects and cultural reflection

• Philosophy of medicine/psychiatry and psychotherapy

• Digitalization and AI 

• Metaethics & Applied Ethics (medical ethics) 

   

Since 01/2026
Project Lead and Consultant for Educational Management/Project Development, Sagittarius Akademie GmbH, Bochum

Since 05/2024
Affiliate at the Institute for First-Person Research, Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy, Witten/Herdecke University

09/2021 – 02/2024
Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy, Department of Philsophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies, Hokkaido University, Japan 

10/2021 – 02/2024
Member of CHAIN (Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience) at Hokkaido University, Japan

02/2023 – 02/2024 
Local Lecturer in Linguistics, DAAD, Sapporo

03/2020 – 08/2020
Research Assistant and Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Medical Ethics, Institute for the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine, University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

11/2014 – 03/2019
Research Assistant with teaching responsibilities in Practical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy at Georg August University of Göttingen

10/2013 – 03/2021
Visiting Lecturer in the StuFu (Department of Philosophy, Medical Ethics, PPE; Overview of courses: Kerrin Artemis Jacobs - Teaching Experience - researchmap ) at Witten/Herdecke University

03-10/2024
Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Nursing Science, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Bochum

10/2012 – 03/2013
Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück

10/01/2012 - 03/31/2013
Principal research associate in the project: „Emotional Experience in Depression: A Philosophical Study‟ funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and DFG (German Research Foundation), University of Durham

Oct. 2011 – Sept. 2012
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the interdisciplinary project Animal Emotionale II "Existential Feelings, Psychopathology, and the Range of Evolutionary Explanations” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation – within the initiative “Key Issues in the Humanities” conducted by the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück

2011
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Mannheim 

Grants/Awards

• Scholarship (EMMAUS Project), Congregatio Jesu, Nymphenburg/Munich (2024)

• Hokkaido-Melbourne Research Grant “Healthy Aging and the Good Life” 

• Scholarship, Friedrich Nietzsche College, Klassik Stiftung Weimar (2013)

• DGPPN essay competition “Philosophy of Psychiatry” award

• Start-up funding from the University of Osnabrück’s research pool for loneliness research (2012)

•  Commendation for excellent teaching, Hans Mühlenhoff Foundation, Osnabrück

• Postgraduate scholarship from the State of Baden-Württemberg (2005–2008)

Additional work experience

09/2025 – 01/2026
Coach, lecturer, DropIn Müller & Rückwald GbR, Bochum

2020
Certificate in Clinical Ethics Counseling (AEM Göttingen)

05/2008 – 02/2009
Educational counselor in child and youth welfare/integration support, AWO Mannheim

07/2003 – 10/2003
Psychiatric care assistant, Diakonie Baden

Further education/trainings: https://researchmap.jp/KerrinJacobs/others

Memberships 

• Academy for Ethics in Medicine (AEM), Göttingen

• German Society for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, and Neurology (DGPPN)

• German Society for Phenomenological Medicine, Psychology, and Psychotherapy (DGA)

• German Society for Phenomenological Research (DGPF)