Curriculum Vitae, Kristin Zeiler

Year and place of birth: 1973, Uppsala, Sweden.

University degree:
2009, Docent in ethics, with a special focus on medical ethics, Linköping University.
2005, Ph.D, Health and Society, Linköping University.
1998, Master of Arts (medicine and religious science/ethics), Uppsala University.

Current position: 

2011- Associate Professor in Medical Ethics, Linköping University (LiU).

From August 2012, Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala.

Previous positions:

2011-2007, LiU-Assistant Professor (LiU-forskarassistent).

2007-2005, Lecturer at Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, post-doc, Geneva (WHO). 

2005-1998, Ph.D-student, Tema Health and Society, Linköping University (including time for parental leave).

Doctoral thesis: “Chosen Children? An empirical study and a conceptual analysis of moral aspects of preimplantation genetic diagnosis and germ-line gene therapy." The doctoral project was financed by the ELSA National Research Program, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. The thesis received a research price in 2006 from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, LiU.

Visiting scholarships and research stays abroad:
Nov 2005-January 2006, the World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland (Main project: "Self and Other in Global Bioethics").
Nov 2000-May 2001, Centre for Applied Ethics, Cardiff University, Wales (financed by STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education).
May 2001, the World Council of Churches, Geneva, Switzerland (financed by the Memorial Fund of Nathan Söderblom).
May 2000, Research stay in Rome and Pisa, Italy (financed by the Swedish Church).

Editorial Board Member, Chair of Research Network, Member of Research Network.
Member of the editorial board of the international peer-review journal Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Chair of the international network The Humanities Forum: Gender and Health (based at Linköping University). I am part of the planning committee for the Swedish Forum for Medical Ethics, and member of European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care and the research network Ethical, Legal and Psychosocial Aspects of Organ Donation (the working-group on Public Issues).

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