Sigrid Sterckx

Sigrid Sterckx, PhD, is Professor of Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of Ghent University. She is a founding member of the Bioethics Institute Ghent. She lectures courses in theoretical and applied ethics as well as social and political philosophy and global ethics. Her current research projects focus on: global justice (with particular attention to climate change and economic governance); human tissue research and biobanking; patenting in biomedicine and genomics; organ transplantation; neurosciences, criminal law and ethics; and end-of-life decisions.