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 groupBeoordelingscommissie Offroad - lid van beoordelingscommissie - ZonMW
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
