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.

2023  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

2023    Co-Initiator of the AI Helpdesk that provide peer-reviewed answers to public questions about AI  

2023    Co-initiator Art exhibition at the University Museum Utrecht: Playfulness in Science (LuisterRijk)

2023     Co-initiator of the ‘purple crocodile award’ for colleagues who structurally lower work pressure in academia (UYA)

2021     Selected member of the Utrecht Young Academy (chair of UYA Interdisciplinary Research Committee since 2023)

Formerly:

2021     Part of the Focus Area Open Science, UMC Utrecht

2020     Selected member of VERS, the Young Council for Health and Society

2018     Organization of bimonthly Academic Film club ‘Cine Qua Non’, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands