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Joel
Janhonen
Doctoral Researcher, Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Doctoral Researcher
PeCCaPS study - Personal Crisis and Cancer Predisposition Syndromes

Areas of expertise

Narrative inquiry
Bioethics
Bioengineering
Social intuitionism
Artificial intelligence

Biography

Bioengineer with experience in photocatalytic disinfection as well as from working in a cleanroom and a bioanalytical pharma laboratory - since transitioned to bioethics research. A 2021 MSc graduate from King's College London and a current Vice-Chairman of the Board at the Finnish Institute of Bioethics.

Teaching

I serve as a visiting lecturer at the Tampere University in courses on bioethics and research ethics. I have also participated in ethics teaching for high school students.

Research

My aim is to practically apply theoretical knowledge of both biology and ethics in an engaging way to expand the sense of the possible. 

  • Narrative assessment model, search for adaptive interpretations
  • The experience of disintegration, contingency and crisis of meaning
  • Post-crisis reintegration​​​​​​​​ and narrative interventions

  • Machine ethics and AI value acquisition
  • Open science movement, especially DIY bio

Publications

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