Maria Kronfeldner works in philosophical anthropology, the philosophy of the sciences (life sciences, social sciences, humanities) and metaphysics (related to these sciences), integrating these three fields with approaches in epistemology, science studies, and social philosophy. She is Professor at CEU since 2014. From 2010-2014 she was Junior Professor at Bielefeld University. Earlier she held several fellowships, among them at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, at the Fishbein Center for History of Science and Medicine of the University of Chicago, at the Center for Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh, and at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science at the University of Sydney. She earned her PhD at the University of Regensburg in 2006. For her early work on creativity, she has been awarded the Karl Popper Essay Prize of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and The Philosophical Quarterly International Essay Prize. She is currently working mainly on human life (human nature, human kinds) and the negations of it (dehumanization, inhumanity).