Elisabeth Marjolijn (''Elselijn'') Kingma (born 1981) is a Dutch philosopher. She is a professor at

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where she holds the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy and Medicine.

Career

She received her undergraduate degrees in Medicine (2004) and Psychology (2004) from

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, and her MPhil (2005) and PhD (2008) in History & Philosophy of Science from the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. She did post-doctoral research in the Department for Clinical Bioethics,

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(USA). Before working at King's College, she worked at the

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as Associate Professor in Philosophy. From 2012 to 2019 she was Socrates Professor in the Philosophy of Ethics of Biotechnology at the University of Eindhoven. In 2016, she received a €1.2 million euro grant from the

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for her research ''Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy (BUMP).'' In 2020, she was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize, given annually to researchers at an 'early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future career is exceptionally promising.'

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Elselijn Kingma at the University of Southampton
21st-century Dutch philosophers Philosophy academics Living people Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Southampton 1981 births Academics of King's College London Philosophers of medicine {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub