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