Katja Kuehlmeyer

Katja Kuehlmeyer is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. She specializes in translational bioethics, focusing on health care ethics, clinical ethics, and research ethics with an emphasis on moral challenges and ethical decision-making in complex situations. She co-founded the network Qualitative Research in Medicine and Public Health to support early-career researchers and contributes to teaching qualitative research methods at medical faculties.

• Institution: Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, LMU Munich
• Role: Vice-Director, Senior Researcher
• Contact: katja.kuehlmeyer@med.uni-muenchen.de

Her research spans qualitative studies on end-of-life decision-making, disorders of consciousness, and ethical implications of neurodiagnostics. Recent work addresses cross-cultural ethical challenges, pandemic triage protocols, and caregiver experiences during collective hunger strikes. Publications demonstrate a commitment to bridging empirical research with normative ethics.

Notable collaborations include projects on migrant healthcare, post-traumatic stress disorder, and functional neurodiagnostics. She has contributed to systematic reviews on late recovery from vegetative states and stakeholder engagement in health research.