Work Focus
- Ethics in healthcare
- Clinical ethics
- Ethical questions at the end of life
- Digitalisation in the healthcare sector
- Artificial intelligence in medicine and care
Education
- Doctorate at the Institute for Social Ethics at the Ethics Centre of the University of Zurich
- Studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Zurich and Geneva
Career Path
- Since 2025: Head of the Neumünster Institute
- Since 2021: Ethics Co-ordinator at the Neumünster Institute
- Since 2018: Self-employed ethicist specialising in the ethics of innovation and digital ethics (www.ethix.ch) as well as ethics in healthcare (www.brauerstrub.ch, since 2013), Zurich
- 2020–2023: Managing Director of the Intercantonal Legislative Conference, the umbrella organisation for Switzerland’s cantonal parliaments
- 2020–2022: Acting Head of the Secretariat of the National Ethics Commission in the Field of Human Medicine (NEK-CNE), Bern
- 2018–2021: Managing Director of the Foundation for Scientific Policy Fellowships, Bern
- 2013–2018: Research Fellow specialising in science policy at the ETH Board Secretariat, Zurich
- 2008–2012: Head of the Secretariat of the National Ethics Commission in the Field of Human Medicine (NEK-CNE), Bern
- 2007–2008: Research Fellow in Science Policy at the Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly, Bern
- 2002–2007: Research Assistant at the Institute for Social Ethics at the Centre for Ethics, University of Zurich
Other activities
- Member of the National Ethics Commission in the Field of Human Medicine (NEK-CNE)
- Member of the Ethics Advisory Board of the City of Lucerne
- Lecturer at various universities of applied sciences and universities
- Member of the Cantonal Council of the Canton of Zurich since May 2026
- Co-President of the Social Democratic Party (SP) in the Canton of Zurich
- 2008–2020: Member of the City Council of Zurich