I investigate pressing research questions in bioethics (with specific focus on ethics at end-of-life) and health law through interdisciplinary analysis, applying my legal and philosophical expertise. My work also aims to offer practical implications and policy recommendations for healthcare professionals regarding ethical and professional problems. In my research, I combine theoretical and doctrinal approaches with empirical work, primarily qualitative, though I also have quantitative experience.

Key Words: Bioethics; Death and dying; Ethics of End-of-life care, including aid-in-dying, euthanasia, mercy killing, palliative care – cultural, equity, access and quality issues;  Law and health; Health policy; Compassion – theoretical and empirical aspects of this concept and its relation to other close concepts such as empathy or altruism; Nursing ethics and moral distress; Ethics of dementia care