Prof. Dr. Martina Schmidhuber
Head of Institute | Professor for Health Care Ethics
Martina Schmidhuber has been Professor of Health Care Ethics at the University of Graz since 2019 and is head of the Institute of Moral Theology, to which her professorship is affiliated.
She completed her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Salzburg. She then researched and taught on medical ethics topics at the Hannover Medical School (MHH), the University of Bielefeld and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where she habilitated in the field of "Ethics and Theory of Medicine". Martina Schmidhuber completed research stays in Hamburg and Göttingen as well as in Oslo and Bergen and is a member of several ethics committees and scientific advisory bodies. In her research projects, she focuses on ethical challenges faced by people with dementia, people with rare diseases (especially MSA), queer and trans* people and young carers.
As part of a research group funded by the FWF from 2023-2028, Martina Schmidhuber is working with her colleague Caroline Breitegger on the ethical aspects of the rare disease multisystem atrophy (MSA).
More about the project: Medical Decision Making in MSA Research Group (MeDeMSA) - Medical University of Innsbruck
As part of the Elisabeth-List-Fellowship of the University of Graz, Martina Schmidhuber is researching reproductive justice in queer and trans* people together with Doris Leibetseder (Senior Fellow, Basel), Caroline Hammer (Junior Fellow, Graz) and Elif Gül (Junior Fellow, Vienna).
More about the project: Reproductive justice in the context of queer and trans* reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) - Elisabeth List Fellowship Program for Gender Studies
For more information, please see her full CV and list of publications.