Dr. Stephan Kampowski was born in Bavaria, Germany. In 1998, he graduated from the Franciscan University of Steubenville with two master’s degrees: one in theology and one in philosophy.

He has been teaching at the John Paul II Institute in various capacities since 2005, the year in which he defended his doctoral dissertation at the same Institute. The thesis was published in 2008 by Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, under the title: Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning. The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt in the Light of Her Dissertation on Saint Augustine.

In the spring of 2008, he spent a research semester with Dr. Stanley Hauerwas at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he completed another book project examining the contributions of Hans Jonas and Jürgen Habermas to the biotechnology debate. The book was published by Pickwick, Oregon, as A Greater Freedom. Biotechnology, Love, and Human Destiny. Dr. Kampowski is also the author, co-author, and editor of numerous other publications.

From 2008-2019 he was one of the coordinators of the Master in Bioethics and Formation, organized by the John Paul II Institute and the Institute of Bioethics and Medical Humanities of the University of the Sacred Heart, Rome.

Since 2012 he has also been an invited professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.