Mag. Julia Fischer, PhD

Research Scientist at the Department for Ethics and Law in Medicine

Short biography

  • PhD in political science
  • Lecturer in politics of death and dying, and in political gerontology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Associate member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Research at the University of Augsburg
  • Co-coordinator of the International Research Network on Citizenship and Dementia
  • Previous affiliations with the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the University of Freiburg, the University of Innsbruck, and the Technical University of Munich
  • Apprenticeship and working experience as paramedic

Research area

  • Politics and policies on death and dying (with special focus on legislating assisted dying, palliative care, withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment)
  • Political dimensions of end-of-life care and non-intervention
  • Adult guardianship
  • Social science dementia studies
  • Political gerontology
  • Health movements and advocacy
  • Qualitative (interpretative) research methods

 Publications

The full publication list can be found here.