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Technische Universität München

Dr. Amy Clare

Postdoktorandin

Wissenschafts- und Technologiepolitik

Seit 2025 ist Amy Postdoktorandin im BioSysteM-Projekt. In ihrer Doktorarbeit befasste sie sich mit der CRISPR-Cas-vermittelten Xenotransplantationswissenschaft als einem Bereich an der Schnittstelle zwischen Landwirtschaft und Biomedizin. Dabei zeigte sie auf, wie die Entwicklung der Biotechnologie mit der politischen Ökonomie der Tierhaltung verflochten ist, und untersuchte die Auswirkungen, die dies auf die Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Tier und Umwelt im Anthropozän hat.  

Ihr besonderes Interesse gilt neuen Gentechnologien (in der Biomedizin und Landwirtschaft), den Beziehungen zwischen Mensch, Tier und Umwelt (z. B. durch veterinärmedizinische Anthropologie), Ethnografie und feministischen Wissenschaftsstudien.  

Zuvor absolvierte Amy ihren Master in medizinischer Anthropologie an der Universität Heidelberg (2018). Sie konzentrierte sich auf grenzüberschreitenden Reproduktionstourismus und Eizellentechnologien. Nach ihrem Abschluss arbeitete sie am Women’s College Research Institute in Toronto, einem Zentrum, das sich mit der Einbeziehung von Geschlecht und Gender in biomedizinische Interventionen (z. B. klinische Studien, Förderanträge), Wissensumsetzung (KT) und gemeindebasierten lokalen Initiativen für die öffentliche Gesundheit befasst. Im März 2019 schloss sie sich dem Team von Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller für Wissenschafts- und Technologiepolitik an der Technischen Universität München an, um dort zu promovieren. 

  • Feminist Science Studies
  • Human-Animal-Environment relations
  • Gene Editing Technologies
  • Veterinary Anthropology
  • Human-Animal Health
  • Ethnography 

  • Biosystems Design Munich (BioSysteM): Constructing biological function across scales – from fundamentals to real world applications. Cluster of Excellence.  

 

  • Kögel, J., Cook, P.S., Brown, N., Clare, A., Glick, M.H., Hansson, K., Idvall, M., Lundin, S., Michael, M., Rogvi, S., Sharp, L.A. (2025). Engineering organs, hopes and hybridity: considerations on the social potentialities of xenotransplantation. Medical Humanities, 51(1), 180-184 DOI 10.1136/medhum-2024-013061 

  • Clare, A., Müller, R., & Feiler, F. (2025). It’s all about factory farming: German public imaginaries of gene editing technologies in animal agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values, DOI 10.1007/s10460-025-10712-5 

  • Müller, R., Clare, A., & Ruess, A. (2023). STS and bioethics: Forging new synergies for exploring the potentials and pitfalls of public engagement with new biotechnologies. The American Journal of Bioethics, 23 (7): 72-74. DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2207505 

  • Clare, A. (2023). The Boars of Biotechnology. Anthropology News: Sex Issue. Available: https://www.anthropology-news.org/articles/the-boars-of-biotech/ 

  • Clare, A. (2022). What stories do we tell about the critters involved with CRISPR-Cas? Examining scientists’ reflections on multispecies relationships in gene editing research. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 1-14. DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2022.2029716  

  • Clare, A, & Feiler, J. (2022). Did Ms. Macdonald have a farm? Blind spots and participant recruitment in agricultural research. Edinburgh Hub for Responsible Innovation. Available: https://rri.ed.ac.uk/project/did-ms-macdonald-have-a-farm/ 

  • Müller, R., Feiler J., & Clare, A. (2022). A doomed technology? On gene editing in Bavarian livestock agriculture, policy field conflicts, and responsible research and innovation. Frontiers in Political Science, 4:800211. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2022.800211 

  • Müller, R., Clare, A., Feiler, J., & Ninow, M. (2021). Between a rock and a hard place: Farmers’ perspectives on gene editing in livestock agriculture in Bavaria. EMBO Reports, 22(7). DOI: 10.15252/embr.202153205 

  • Physics as Practice: Science and Society in the Making of Knowledge, Department of STS and Physics, WS 2025-2026
  • Immersion Project “Speculating about Digital Futures: Unravelling future worlds through stories and science fiction” WS 2025-2026
  • “Hacking TUM for Diversity” Project Week, WS 2024/25; SS 2025
  • Departmental Lecture Series “Cypork Production: Examining CRISPR-Cas-mediated xenotransplantation science and life at the intersection of agriculture and biomedicine” WS 2023/2024
  • “Developing Dystopias: Examining the social, political and ethical dimensions of sci-fi and video games” Game Jam Workshop WS 2023/24
  • Telling responsible stories, telling stories responsibly: STS, technoscience, and narrative culture, Seminar (SS 2023), 3 Semester weekly hours, Position: Lecturer
  • Invited guest lecture in “Public engagement in science, technology, and environment,” (LMU, Chair of Life Sciences in Society, Prof. Michael John Gorman and Dr. Mascha Gugganig), Seminar (SS 2023)
  • Doctoral Workshop on Focus Group Methodology (SS 2023)
  • STS-MINT Mentorship – Biotech Health, and Ecology Leader, Seminar (SS 2022), 2 Semester weekly hours, Position: Mentor
  • Immersion Project “Gene editing in the Anthropocene” (WS 2019/20; 2020/21; 2021/22), 7 Semester weekly hours, Position: Lecturer
  • Bioengineering and Society, Seminar at the Helmholtz Center (SS  2020; 2021; 2022; 2023)
  • Fachspezifische Qualifikationen in Aktuellen Themen der Biologie | Eng: Subject-specific qualfications in current biology, Ringseminar (SS 2022; 2023)
  • Responsibility in Environment and Health: Social and Cultural Perspectives on Environment, Health, Science, and Technology, Seminar (SS 2022; WS 2019/20; SS 2024; SS 2025) 
  • STS-STEM Mentorship “Biotech-Health-Ecology” (SS 2021)
  • “Bodies and Beings in Biomedicine,” Core Biomedicine Topic, seminar (SS 2020)
  • “Need a knee? Politics of Knowledge Production in Biomedicine,” in Who Is Responsible for Environment and Health? Social and Cultural Perspective on Environment, Health, and Technology, lecture (WS 2019/2020) 

  • Clare, A. and Oomen, J. 2025. Care in the world | The social and political life of the ethics of care and its implications. Radiant Futures, Liege Belgium.
  • Valdes Stauber, C., Lammar, D., Clare, A. (2025) Playing with Futures: Using Game James to critically think through socio-ecological transformations. STS Italia, Milan, Italy.
  • Clare, A. (2024). Cypork Production: Examining CRISPR-Cas mediated xenotransplantation science and life at the intersection of agriculture and biomedicine. Invited talk at the Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. 
  • Clare, A. (2024). Livestock logic in xenotransplantation science. Workshop Conference titled XenoSocial: Examining the Social implications of xenotransplantation. 30.11.-02.12. Tutzing, Germany. 
  • Clare, A. (2024). What porcine (im)mobilities mean for xenotransplantation science. Conference: Laboratory Animal (Im)mobilities: Relocating pasts and presents of biomedical experimentation. Maastricht University.
  • Clare, A. (2024). “I’m just a stupid pig vet!” Veterinary subjectivities in xenotransplantation science and beyond. EASST 2024 Amsterdam - Panel organizer: Veterinary Worlds & The Challenges of Multispecies Coexistence with Else Vogel (University of Amsterdam)
  • Clare, A. (2023). The pathogen and the pig: Examining multiple enactments of biosecurity in biotechnology research. STS Italia conference, Bologna, Italy.
  • Clare, A. & Müller, R. (2022). A doomed technology? On gene editing in Bavarian livestock agriculture, policy field conflicts and responsible research and innovation. EASST conference, Madrid, Spain.
  • Clare, A. (2022). Between a rock and a hard place: Farmers’ perspectives on gene editing in livestock agriculture in Bavaria. Resilience in Food and Health Systems, Center for Life Science Management and Policy Symposium, Straubing, Germany.
  • Clare, Amy (2021). The Oscillation of Pigs: How generative processes of agricultural infrastructures feature in xenotransplantation. 4S Conference, Toronto, Canada (Virtual).
  • Clare, Amy; Feiler, Julia; Müller, Ruth. (2021) Beneficial Biotechnology or Pandora’s Box? Farmer’s perspectives on gene editing in livestock agriculture in Bavaria. 4S Conference, Toronto, Canada (Virtual).
  • Clare, Amy (2021). An ethnographic exploration of xenotransplantation. Science Studies Reading Group (SSRG), Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
  • Clare, Amy; Müller, Ruth (2020). What are we talking about? Understanding how context matters for assessing biotech innovations in agriculture. European Biotechnology & Society Online Seminar Series, ERA CoEraBio at the University of Edinburgh (Virtual)
  • Clare, Amy; Müller, Ruth; Feiler, Julia. (2020). “It’s about mass production” Making Sense of CRISPR-CAS9 Food Futures in Bavaria. 4S/EASST Conference, Prague, Czechia (Virtual)
  • Clare, Amy; Müller, Ruth; Feiler, Julia (2020). Gesellschaftliche Bewertung der Genom-Editierung bei Nutztieren | Societal Evaluation of Genome Editing in Livestock. FORTiGe Project Update, Freising, Germany
  • Clare, Amy (2019). Re-Imagining Responsibility? CRISPR-CAS9 in Bavarian Agriculture. Higher Education Research and Science Studies School. Garching, Germany.
  • Müller, Ruth; Clare, Amy; Feiler, Julia (2019). Localizing CRISPR/Cas9? Re-Imagining Gene Editing as a Tool for Small-Scale Agriculture in Bavaria. 4S Conference, New Orleans, US.
  • Mason, Robin; Clare, Amy (2018). The Evolution of Health Research: Integrating Sex and Gender. International Women and Children’s Health Conference, Hamilton, Canada. 

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