Associate Professor
Strategic program(s):
Biography
Dr. Karin Jongsma is associate professor of Bioethics at the Julius Center of the University Medical Center Utrecht. She leads a research group focussing on the ethics of (bio)medical innovation, including amongst others digital medicine, neuroscience and regenerative medicine.
Karin is a member of the Institutional Research Board of the University Medical Center Utrecht and the Utrecht Young Academy. Previously she was amongst others a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of Montreal and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS). She is committed to public engagement and science communication and considers playfulness and reflexivity essential to good academic practice.
Research aim
We aim to ethically guide emerging (bio-)medical technologies into society.
Go to groupResearch aim
The Department of Bioethics & Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research department. Our expertise spans fields such as bioethics, health law, history of medicine, narrative medicine, health research governance, and patient involvement.
Go to group2023 NWO Vidi Laureate for the project: Human-AI Collaboration
2023 Visiting fellow at the Uehiro Centre for practical ethics, University of Oxford.
2021 Second Prize DGPPN Best paper Award
2021 Selected Candidate - Research Talent Program, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
2020 Research Fellow with grant - NIAS-Lorentz Theme-group fellowship, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Research Fellowship with grant - Centre De Recherche en Ethique (CRE), McGill University & Université de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2017 Research Fellowship with grant - Caroline Miles Scholarship, Ethox Centre, Big Data institute, University of Oxford, UK
2017 Visiting Fellow, Sociology & Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
2015 Selected Candidate - Dorothea Schlözer Mentor Program for women in academia, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
2015 Visiting Fellow, Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen, Germany
Lid Working Group - 6 groepsbesprekingen over de ethiek en governance van hersendata en gebruik van hersenorganoiden - Brain Organoid Working Group, University of Washington
Docent binnen cursus Het Andere Gesprek - Cursus ontwikkelt en gedoceerd over ethiek van zorgtechnologie - Het Andere Gesprek
Committee Member of the EBRAINS Ethics and Society Committtee - Inhoudelijke aansluiting met neurotechnologie projecten - Ebrains
Kritisch reflecteren op wetenschap, universiteitsbeleid en relatie tussen wetenschap en samenleving - verdiependen verbredend door uitwisseling met andere disciplines en beleidsinhoudelijke beslissingen - Utrecht Young Academy
