Ludovica De Panfilis

She is a Tenure Track Researcher and Professor at DIMEC since October 2024. In 2016, she obtained a PhD in Bioethics, following her Master’s degree in Philosophical Sciences. In 2022, she achieved the National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor in History of Medicine and Bioethics (MEDS-02/C). From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CIRSFID - UNIBO, and later as a Healthcare Researcher at the IRCCS of AUSL Reggio Emilia. Her research focuses on the applications of bioethics in healthcare contexts.Her publications mainly address the following areas: ethical decision-making; advance care planning; empirical bioethics; and complex healthcare interventions.

Until January 2024, she served as WP leader of the work package dedicated to empirical bioethics in the European project “STOPSTORM,” on the applications of radiotherapy in ventricular tachycardia.

She is currently President of the Regional Clinical Ethics Committee of Emilia-Romagna and Vice-President of the Ethics Committee of the Italian Society of Palliative Care.