Nicolai Wohns (he/him)

I am a physician and a PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Washington. My philosophical interests are in bioethics, philosophy of medicine, philosophy of science, and climate ethics, and my primary research is in the philosophy of aging, with a particular focus on normative and epistemic questions about advances in geroscience. In 2024-2025, I served as an editorial fellow with the AMA Journal of Ethics to develop a theme issue on geroscience ethics. The collection brings together leading thinkers to address urgent questions at the intersection of geroscience, clinical medicine, and bioethics.

I also co-direct the UW Graduate Aging Group (along with Sarah McKiddy), which is an interdisciplinary, graduate student research cluster that aims to foster a community of scholars interested in aging research. Since 2024, we have been hosting a guest speaker series and a journal/book club, bringing together students and faculty from across the university. The group is generously funded by the University of Washington Retirement Association (UWRA), the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging, and the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

Additionally, I am a predoctoral research associate with the UW Neuroethics Research Group led by Sara Goering and Eran Klein, focusing on the ethics of implantable brain-computer interface research.