MSocSc, MA Tiia Sudenkaarne is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at University of Turku and a
grant researcher at Tampere University. She will complete her dissertation
on queer and feminist bioethics in the project Technology, Ethics and
Reproduction: Controversy in the Era of Normalization funded by Kone Foundation
at Tampere University. She will continue with the project as a post doctoral
researcher, focusing on ethics of womb-related reproduction technologies,
including feminist bioethical critiques of ectogenetic desires. In the fall of
2021 she will join the Academy of Finland project (no. 324322) Social Study of
Antimicrobial Resistance at Universiy of Helsinki. In the project looking at
AMR in the contexts of health care, animals and ethics,  she will conduct
a case study on queer sex work combining AMR issues with further developing her
layers of queer vulnerabilities. She is actively involved with the social study
of microbes project Microbial Lives: Practices of New Human-Microbial Cultures
funded by Kone Foundation. She is a member of the Future of Reproduction
network supported by the Finnish Cultural Foundation's Argumenta funding. She
is also a member of the committee steering the Center for the Study of
Bioethics in Finland. She is the vice chair of Society of Queer Studies in
Finland.

Sudenkaarne has been the co-editor-in-chief for Society for Queer Studies in
Finland’s Journal. She also co-edited Ethics, Medicine and Public Health
journal’s special issue on LGBTQI+ bioethics. She was shortlisted for Feminist
Approaches to Bioethics’ Donchin and Holmes essay prize in 2016 and Mark S.
Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research in 2020 (had to withdraw from
further proceedings due to the pandemic). In addition to her published work
extensive for her career stage, she has presented and chaired at over thirty
academic conferences. She has held a salary position in University of Turku
Philosophy. She has organized two international conferences, bringing to
Finland such trail-blazing academics as Lance Wahlert, a driving force behind
queer bioethical theory, and Amrita Pande, one of the first and amogst the most
influential ethnographers of surrogacy work in India. She has received several
grants for her PhD work and travel, including stipends from University of
Oxford, University of Cambridge and feminist philosophy’s internationally most
acclaimed journal Hypatia. 

She is currently finalizing her dissertation. She is also a contributing author
in two collaborative, international book projects on feminist and queer
bioethics respectively.