Dr. Amelie Rüppel
Assistant Professor, Postdoc / Project Manager Financial Ethics
Philipps-Universität Marburg/ Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt
Amelie Rüppel is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Social Ethics at Philipps University of Marburg since 2025, where she previously worked as a research assistant from 2018 to 2025. In addition to her academic role, she works as a freelance project manager responsible for the Financial Ethics program at Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt. In this capacity, she develops and organizes events and content on topics such as sustainability, digital currency and related issues.
Amelie Rüppel studied Protestant Theology (Mag. theol.) and Political Economy (B.Sc.) in Marburg, Heidelberg, and at Yale University. During her time at Yale, she developed a strong interest in finance while working as a research assistant to economist and Nobel laureate Robert J. Shiller. She also gained practical experience in the financial sector through freelance project work at Deutsche Bank AG. In 2025, she completed her doctoral thesis on religious narratives of financial crises. Her research focuses on economic and financial ethics, legal ethics, and the ethics of digitalization and artificial intelligence.