Katrien Devolder

Katrien Devolder has a Masters in 'Moral Sciences' (Ghent University, 2000) and in 'History, Ethics, Philosophy of Science and of Biomedical Techniques' (ULB, 2001).

Katrien has been affiliated as a researcher to the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University since 2001. In 2006, she obtained a PhD in Philosophy with a doctoral dissertation on 'The Ethics and Regulation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell research: A Critical Analysis of the Debate'.

Her chief interests are in Bioethics, more in particular in the ethics of the new biosciences: assisted reproduction, cloning, stem cell research and genetics. She has published on these issues in the most important international peer-reviewed journals in bioethics and medical ethics. Katrien is also co-author of "Copyright. Een Bioethisch Essay", a book on human reproductive cloning, which was published by Leuven University Press in 2001. She is currently working on a book about the ethics and regulation of human embryonic stem cell research. Her new research project focuses on ethical implication of the use of non-disease related genetic information in reproductive decision-making.

Katrien Devolder's CV

Link to her academia.edu page (where you can download papers etc.)

Contact:
Room 120
Dept. Philosophy and Moral Sciences
Ghent University
Blandijnberg 2
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
Email:
Tel.: +32 (0)9 264 41 03
Fax: +32 (0)9 264 41 87