Katarína Komenská, PhD

Since her undergraduate years (2005-2009), she had been involved in studies and research on bioethics (disaster bioethics, animal ethics, professional ethics). Her master thesis naturally resulted in analytical research on basic concepts of medical ethics: health, disease, and their moral values. In 2013, she successfully defended her dissertation entitled „Animal ethics (from the perspective of non-utilitarian consequentialism)“.

Within her research activities, she participated at the project State and perspectives of professional ethics in Slovakia, where she analyses professional codes of conduct and ethically reflects on the professional ethics in the area of health care and the project COST Action IS1201 Disaster Bioethics. During the participation at the later, she began to cooperate with number of experts from medical professions, international organizations, as well as academia interested in issues of disasters, humanitarian work, global health, and global justice. At about this time, she also started to be involved in the work of local humanitarian and development organizations.

Her publication list includes her monograph Etika vzťahu k zvieratám (cez optiku etiky sociálnych dôsledkov)/Animal ethics and ethics of social consequences, a chapter „Moral motivation of humanitarian actors“ in edited volume Humanitarian Action & Ethics (A. Ahmad & J. Smith, eds.), a chapter “The concept of moral community in ethics of social consequences” in the edited volume Ethics of social consequences: philosophical, applied and professional challenges (V. Gluchman, ed.), and several published articles and studies in domestic and foreign peer-viewed conference proceedings and journals.

Since 2015, she has been appointed as an Executive Secretary at the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, Slovakia.