The RE-CARE network connects researchers from diverse disciplines across Japan and Germany. Our team is based at universities in Tokyo, Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Sapporo, Münster, Berlin, Bochum, Hamburg, Potsdam, Dortmund, and Heidelberg – as well as other locations.

Members

Dr. Dennis Krämer (PI and responsible organizer)

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Discipline
Sociology

Affiliation
University of Münster
Department of Education and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology

Homepage
www.uni-muenster.de/Soziologie/en/personen/kraemer.shtml
www.denniskraemer.net

E-Mail
kraemer@resilient-healthcare.de
dennis.kraemer@uni-muenster.de

Interests
Sociology of technology
Sociology of sport
Gender diversity and gender inequality
Impact of crises on society and health care
Human-technology relations

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Susanne Brucksch (Host and cooperation partner from Teikyo University)

Discipline
Japanese Studies, Science & Technology Studies (STS), Innovation Studies

Affiliation
Teikyo University
Department of Global Japanese Studies

Homepage
www3.med.teikyo-u.ac.jp/profile/en.f179f413c13b6bf0.html
teikyo-u.academia.edu/SusanneBrucksch

Interests
Health Technologies and Healthcare Systems
Innovation, Technology and Healthcare Policies
Med-Tech Partnerships
Socio-Cultural Setting of Technologies
Environmentalism, Civil Society, Ecological Collaboration

Prof. Dr. Shigeto Yonemura (Host and cooperation partner from the University of Tokyo)

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Discipline
Civil Law, Medical Law

Affiliation
The University of Tokyo
Graduate Schools for Law and Politics

E-Mail
yonemura@j.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Interests
Fundamental Theories of Tort Liability
Regulation of Biomedical Research
Privacy and Liability of Using General Medical Data / Genome Data

Dr. Gabriel Bartl

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Discipline
Sociology

Affiliation
Centre Marc Bloch

Homepage
cmb.hu-berlin.de/team/profil/gabriel-bartl

E-Mail
gabriel.bartl@cmb-hu-berlin.de

Interests
Social and ethical implications of digital technologies
Risk and uncertainty
Multiple crises
Science-policy-nexus
Resilience

Dr. Markus Bohlmann

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Discipline
Philosophy

Affiliation
University of Münster
Department of Philosophy

Homepage
www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/mitglieder/bohlmann.html

E-Mail
markus.bohlmann@uni-muenster.de

Interests
Philosophy of technology
Philosophy of education
Impact of technological change on human-technology relations in multiple crises
Investigations through empirical educational research and technology studies (STS in Education)

Prof. Dr. Dennis Dreiskämper

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Discipline
Psychology

Affiliation
TU Dortmund
Institute for Sport & Sport Sciences

Homepage
sport.kmst.tu-dortmund.de

E-Mail
dennis.dreiskaemper@tu-dortmund.de

Interests
Mental and social health of children and adolescents
Impact of physical activity and sport on health
Influence of change factors on health and health behavior (e.g., crisis, climate, pandemic)
Trust and communication in a digitized world (esp. in children’s and adolescents’ health behavior)

Prof. Dr. Christian Fischer

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Discipline
Educational Science

Affiliation
University of Münster
International Center for the Study of Giftedness

Homepage
www.icbf.de

E-Mail
ch.fischer@uni-muenster.de

Interests
Diversity
Sustainability
Talent Development
Individual Promotion

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Takanori Fujita

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Discipline
Healthcare Law, Healthcare Informatics

Affiliation
Keio University School of Medicine
The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research

Homepage
https://researchmap.jp/taksen?lang=en

E-Mail
t.fujita@tkfd.or.jp

Interests
Healthcare Data Governance
Digitization of Healthcare and Ageing Care
Generative AI

Prof. Dr. André Hajek

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Discipline
Health Care Epidemiology

Affiliation
University Medical Center Hamburg
Hamburg Center for Health Economics

Homepage
www.uke.de/english/physicians-and-scientists/wissenschaftlerprofilseite_andr%C3%A9_hajek.html

E-Mail
a.hajek@uke.de

Interests
Determinants of health in old age
Loneliness
Social isolation
Psychosocial factors
Quality of life
Determinants of healthcare use

Dr. Joschka Haltaufderheide

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Discipline
Philosophy, Medical Ethics

Affiliation
University of Potsdam
Juniorprofessorship for Medical Ethics

Homepage
www.fgw-brandenburg.de/person/dr-phil-joschka-haltaufderheide-m-a

E-Mail
joschka.haltaufderheide@uni-potsdam.de

Interests
Digital health technologies (Digital Contact Tracing, Social Robotics in elderly care, AI in Medicine)
Pandemic Preparedness
Medical Ethics in crisis
Philosophy of Technology

Dr. Jonathan Harth

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Discipline
Sociology

Affiliation
University of Witten/Herdecke

Homepage
www.uwh.de
www.jonathanharth.de

E-Mail
jonathan.harth@uni-wh.de

Interests

Mixed Reality
Artificial Sociality, Arts
Qualitative Research

Prof. Satoshi Kodama

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Discipline
Philosophy

Affiliation
Kyoto University
Graduate School of Letters

Interests
Bioethics
Public Health Ethics

Lukas Kurniawan, Ph.D.

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Discipline
Global Health

Affiliation
Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), Heidelberg University Hospital

Transdisciplinary Research Area (TRA) “Sustainable Future”, University of Bonn
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn

Homepage
www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-kurniawan-alk31101958
www.researchgate.net/profile/Adi-Kurniawan-5

E-Mail
lukas.kurniawan@uni-bonn.de
lukas.kurniawan@uni-heidelberg.de

Interests
Experimental design of global public health
Adolescent health Nutrition and planetary health
Nutrition literacy
Impact of crises on food security and lifestyle behaviors

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Merkel

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Discipline
Social Sciences

Affiliation
Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Social Sciences

Homepage
www.sowi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ehealth/team/merkel.html.de

E-Mail
Sebastian.merkel@rub.de

Interests
Digital Health
Co-design
Participatory design
Conversational agents
Gerontechnology

Prof. Dr. Yoshinori Nakata, MD, MBA, PhD, CPE, FAAPL

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Discipline
Public Health, Economics, Medicine

Affiliation
Teikyo University
Graduate School of Public Health

Homepage
www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/en/faculties/sph

E-Mail
ynakata@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp

Interests
Efficiency and productivity of healthcare


Dr. Ken Ogata, MMSc., CDPSE

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Discipline
Information Law, Healthcare Informatics

Affiliation
Center of Juris-Informatics, The Research Organization of Information and Systems
Keio University, Faculty of Law
The University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics

E-Mail
ogataken@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Interests
Information Law and Politics for Public Health
Law of AI
Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics

Prof. Dr. Jenny Preunkert

Discipline
Sociology

Affiliation
University of Kassel
Department of Sociology

Homepage
www.uni-kassel.de/fb05/fachgruppen-und-institute/soziologie/fachgebiete/makrosoziologie-1

E-Mail
jenny.preunkert@uni-kassel.de

Interests
Comparative sociology
Sociology of inequality
Sociology of debt
Sociology of crisis

Prof. Dr. Robert Ranisch

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Discipline
Medical Ethics

Affiliation
University of Potsdam
Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg

Homepage
www.fgw-brandenburg.de/en/members/professorial-chairs/medical-ethics
www.ranisch.com

E-Mail
ranisch@uni-potsdam.de

Interests
Digital and AI ethics health care
Research ethics with big data
ELSA genomics
Ethics of participation

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Risse

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Discipline
Computer Science

Affiliation
University of Münster
Institute for Geoinformatics
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Homepage
www.uni-muenster.de/Geoinformatics.cvmls

E-Mail
b.risse@uni-muenster.de

Interests
Machine Learning (AI)
Computer Vision & Machine Learning in Biomedical applications
Computer Vision & Machine Learning in Ecological applications

Prof. Dr. Kaori Sasaki

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Discipline
Sociology, Social Studies of Science and Technologies, Cultural Studies

Affiliation
Sapporo Medical University

E-Mail
kaorisasaki@sapmed.ac.jp

Interests

Bio-power and Bio-politics
Secondary Usage of Health Records
FemTech
Gender Politics and Cultural Politics
vis-à-vis development of Science and Technologies

Davide Viero, M.A.

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Discipline
Social Policies, Long-Term Care Policies

Affiliation
University of Duisburg-Essen

Homepage
https://www.uni-due.de/biwi/sozialpolitik/viero.php

E-Mail
davide.viero@uni-due.de

Interests
Long-term care policies

Generosity of social policies
Demographic change and ageing
Civil society and engagement

Prof. Dr. Dr. Jochen Vollmann

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Discipline
Medical Ethics

Affiliation
Ruhr-University Bochum
Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

Homepage
ethik.geschichte.med.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

E-Mail
jochen.vollmann@rub.de

Interests
Informed consent and capacity assessment
Ethics and psychiatry
Medical professionalism,
End−of−life decision−making
Empirical ethics
Clinical ethics committees
Clinical ethics consultation

Dr. Markus Wettstein

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Discipline
Psychology

Affiliation
Humboldt University Berlin

Homepage
www.psychology.hu-berlin.de/de/1695813/1694051

E-Mail
markus.wettstein@hu-berlin.de

Interests
Subjective age
Views on aging and ageism
Trajectories and determinants of health and well-being across the lifespan
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, well-being
Views on aging in midlife and old age

Assoc. Prof. Kunhao Yang

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Discipline
Computational Social Science, Data Science

Affiliation
Yamaguchi University
Graduate school of sciences and technology

Homepage
researchmap.jp/Yang-Kunhao?lang=en

E-Mail
yangkunhao93@gmail.com

Interests
Cultural Evolution
Application of Machine Learning
Large Language Models in Social Science
Bayesian Methods
Percolation Theory

Dr. Sou Hee Yang, Esq.

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Discipline
Criminial Law

Affiliation
Waseda University
Faculty of Social Sciences

Homepage
www.waseda.jp/fsss/en/

E-Mail
ssophiey@toki.waseda.jp

Interests
Comparative criminal law
Technology and criminal law
Gender in crises (domestic and sexual violence during crises)
Gender-based violence

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