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Energy Ethics : its past, present and futures
Behnam Taebi

Monthly Meeting of the Scottish Energy Forum.

The first meeting of the 2022-23 Season of lectures. We look forward to welcoming members and their guests to the Royal Scots Club to hear from Professor Behnam Taebi, Professor of Climate and Energy Ethics at TU Delft

Professor Behnam Taebi

Behnam Taebi’s research interests are in energy ethics, nuclear ethics, responsible innovation and engineering ethics. He studied Material Science and Engineering (2006) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Technology (2010).

He is the coordinating editor of a volume on The Ethics of Nuclear Energy (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and a special issue of Journal of Risk Research (2015) on “Socio-Technical Challenges of Nuclear Power Production” and is currently writing a monograph on Ethics and Engineering (under contract with Cambridge University Press).

Taebi regularly publishes op-eds in international and Dutch speaking media.