Behnam Taebi

Behnam Taebi is Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics and Scientific Director of the Safety & Security Institute at Delft University of Technology. Taebi studied Material Science and Engineering (2006) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Technology (2010). He was further affiliated with Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University (2014-2020).

Taebi is the co-Editor-in-Chief of Science and Engineering Ethics, and co-editor a volume on The Ethics of Nuclear Energy, published with Cambridge University Press (2015) and the author of a monograph on Ethics and Engineering, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press (2021).

He is also a member of The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (in Dutch: DJA-KNAW) and a member of the OECD Expert Group on Transdisciplinary Research for Addressing Global Challenges.


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