Petra Gehring (PhD in Philosophy 1992, Ruhr University Bochum) is Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her research focuses on the philosophical history of concepts and the performativity of signs, voice, text, and sound, as well as on biotechnologies, digitality, and digital infrastructures. Her recent work on these themes includes the monograph Biegsame Expertise. Geschichte der Bioethik in Deutschland (Suhrkamp, 2025).

In January 2026, she was a POLY Short-Term Fellow and delivered a public keynote lecture for the Writing Group “(Re-) Ordering Time” at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg, titled “World Time, Lifetime, Existence: Philosophical Perspectives.”