Dr. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is lecturer of medical ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg.
He studied philosophy at King's College/University of London (BA), the University of Durham (MA by thesis; examiners: David E. Cooper, Durham ; David Owen, Southampton), the University of Giessen and the University of Jena (Dr. phil.; examiners: Wolfgang Welsch , Jena; Gianni Vattimo, Turin).
In recent years, he taught at the Universities of Jena (Germany), Erfurt (Germany) and Klagenfurt (Austria). His main fields of research are Nietzsche, the philosophy of music, bioethics and meta-, post- and transhumanism.

Transforming Human Nature, Dublin, Oktober 2011
Wagner und das Motiv der Suche, Graupa, June 2011
Audiovisual Posthumanism, Mytilini, Lesbos , September 2010
Humanism and Posthumanism, Belgrade , April 2009
Wagner and Nietzsche, Jena , July 2008
Eugenics and the Future, Jena , July 2004
Humanbiotechnology as Social Challenge, Wartburg, Eisenach , May 2004

1. Editorial Board member (as Editorial Consultant) of the “Journal of Evolution and Technology“
2. Advisory Board member of the "Nietzsche Circle" (New York)
3. Editorial Board member of the book series “Musikphilosophie“, Alber Verlag, Freiburg i. Br.
4. Member of the Advisory Board of the Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by H. James Birx, 2006, 5 Vol., SAGE Publications in Thousand Oaks, California.
5. Member of the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Time. Edited by H. James Birx, 2009, 3. Vol., SAGE Publications in Thousand Oaks, California.
6. Member of the Editorial Board of the Handbook of 21stCentury Anthropology. Edited by H. James Birx, H. James, 2010, 2. Vol., SAGE Publications in Thousand Oaks, California.
7. Editor of the book series “Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism/Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus“, Peter Lang Publishing
8. Editorial Board Member of the journal “Anthropologia Integra”