| 2015 – Present | International Advisory Board for DecontamiNATION, Research Inititiative in the Studies of Theology and Democracy, Croatioa and Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| 2015 – Present | Advisory Board for Dept of Religions & Theology, Trinity College Dublin |
| 2013 – Present | Editorial Board: De Ethica |
| 2013 – Present | Member of the International Network, Advisory Board: Alternative Perspectives and Global Concerns |
| 2010 – 2015 | Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies of the European Commission (2nd term) |
| 2003 – Present | Editorial Board of the German Journal “Zeitschrift für Ethik in der Medizin” |
| 2000 – 2015 | Director of the international journal “Concilium” |
| 2010 – 2012 | Member of the Zentralkomitee Deutscher Katholiken (ZdK) |
| 2009 – 2012 | Advisory Committee of the European Union FP 7 Research Project SYBHEL: Synthetic Biology for Human Health, Ethical and Legal Issues |
| 2007 – 2010 | Appointment as Director of the newly founded Institute of Advanced Studies of the Humanities (Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften) University of Frankfurt |
| 2007 – 2010 | Member of the Ethics Commission of the German Federal Physicians’ Chamber |
| 2005 – 2009 | Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies of the European Commission |
| 2003 – 2011 | Advisory Board for Bioethics, Federal Ministry of Research and Education, Germany |
| 2002 – 2011 | Advisory Board for Bioethics, German Catholic Bishop Conference |
| 2007 – 2008 | Appointment as Ethics Advisor for the Reform of the Swiss Law on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis |
| 1999 – 2009 | Editorial Board of “Ethical Perspectives” |
