Sigrid Sterckx, Ph.D., is Professor of Ethics and Political and Social Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences of Ghent University since 2011. She is a founding member of both the Bioethics Institute Ghent and the Ghent Centre for Global Studies. She lectures on theoretical and applied ethics and social and political philosophy. Her research projects focus on human tissue research and bio-banking, patenting in biomedicine and genomics, organ transplantation, neurosciences, criminal law and ethics, end-of-life decisions and global justice. She has published widely in the field.
