Meet our Team

A multidisciplinary group of researchers dedicated to understanding the social dynamics of trust

She holds degrees in Nursing and Philosophy and a PhD in Philosophy with International Mention from the University of Granada. Her research focuses on care practices, organ donation, bereavement, qualitative methodologies, and gender studies.

Dr. María Victoria Martínez-López

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor at the University of Granada, Nursing Department

He holds a degree in Philosophy and Masters' in both Philosophy and Sociology by the University of Málaga. He specialises in Bioethics and Applied Ethics with a focus on the application of Experimental and Empirical Quantitative methods.

Jorge Suárez

Data Analyst

PhD Candidate at the University of Granada, Philosophy Department

She holds a PhD in Philosophy (Bioethics) from the University of La Laguna, and is a researcher at the University of Granada and collaborator with the Canary Islands Health Service's Technology Assessment Agency (SESCS). A former nurse for 18 years, she is now a professor at the University of Yamaguchi.

Janet Delgado

Researcher

Professor at Yamaguchi University, Nursing Department

He earned his PhD at the Autonomous University of Madrid in December 2017 and later held a Juan de la Cierva Formación fellowship at the University of Granada and a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Advanced Social Studies of the Spanish National Research Council (IESA-CSIC). He is currently an active member of the ELPAT working group of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT).

Alberto Molina

Researcher

Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the University of Granada, Philosophy Department

She is a health services researcher with an interdisciplinary background in the creative arts and health sciences, specialising in evidence-informed service development in ethically complex areas of care. Her research focuses on organ and tissue donation, transplantation, including peadiatric organ donation and transplant, kidney and women's health, family decision-making at end of life, and the ethical and health service challenges of emerging technologies such as xenotransplantation.

Leah McLaughlin, PhD

Researcher

Health Services Researcher at Bangor University, School of Health Sciences

She holds a PhD in Bioethics and a Habilitation in Medical Ethics and Medical Humanities (both University of Göttingen, Germany).
Her research focuses on public health ethics, organ donation, obesity, health communication, and health humanities.

Solveig Lena Hansen, PD Dr.

Researcher

Tenured Lecturer, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen

She qualified as a professor in the history, theory, and ethics of medicine and holds a PhD in philosophy.
Her research focuses on distributive justice in healthcare, organ allocation, ethics of digitalisation of healthcare, ethics of clinical and interprofessional decision making, and reproductive rights.

Nadia Primc, PD Dr.

Researcher

Assistant Professor, Medical Faculty, Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine, Heidelberg University

He graduated in microbial genetics and spent 15 years doing biomedical research on antibiotic resistance. His current research focuses on philosophy and bioethics, with several books and articles published in these fields.

Peter Sýkora, PhD

Researcher

Professor of Philosophy, Centre for Bioethics at the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius

Her research interests focus on ethical issues in personalized medicine in close relation to clinical practice. She continues to focus on the systematic, theoretical and practical analysis on ethical issues related to healthcare professions; forms of public participation in ethical aspects concerning medicine, nursing and healthcare; as well as new technologies and digitalization in healthcare. She holds currently the chair of the working group on "public issues" of ELPAT of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT). Sabine Wöhlke is also chair of the Ethics Committee at HAW Hamburg and speaker of the German commission of medical anthropology.

Prof. Sabine Wöhlke

Researcher

Professor of Health Sciences and Ethics, University of Applied Science Hamburg, Department of Health Sciences