Prof. Dr. Martina Schmidhuber
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.
Dr. Doris Leibetseder
Doris Leibetseder is responsible for the concept and application of "Reproductive Justice" in the context of queer and trans* reproduction with Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) as part of the Reproductive Justice project funded by the University of Graz through the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program, with which she has been familiar since 2014 through her participation in a seminar and workshop on "Reproductive Justice" at UC Berkeley. Her knowledge has now been updated at the University of Cambridge through the Reproductive Justice Network and has also been adapted to local circumstances through participation in German-language online events on the topic (e.g. Heinrich Böll Foundation). In addition, Leibetseder contributes fundamental and comprehensive knowledge and important contacts in the field of queer and trans* reproductive justice through her many years (almost 10 years) of research experience on queer and trans reproduction with reproductive technologies to the main topics of the fellowship.
Research and teaching focus:
Gender studies, STS (science, technology, society) studies, ethics, LGBTIQ studies, cultural studies, philosophy, sociology.
Short CV with a selection of the most important publications
