Brigitte Falkenburg is Professor Emerita of Theoretical Philosophy at TU Dortmund in Germany, and a philosopher of astroparticle physics, cosmology and technology. Her approach to cosmology is inspired by Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, which warns against the idea that the universe as a whole can be a possible object of knowledge. 

Having begun her career as a high energy physicist, Falkenburg's work now focuses on how physicists can come to have evidence for theories about unobservable parts of the universe, and whether different sub-fields of physics can unify their different theories of reality.