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Alena Buyx is a physician and completed postgraduate degrees in philosophy and sociology before becoming an assistant professor of medical ethics at the University of Muenster (Germany). After spending a year in the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health, she is currently Assistant Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. Alena works on a range of issues in bioethics, including justice in health care and public health, transplantation ethics, medical professionalism and neuroethics. For her medical doctorial thesis, she did research on the neuroimaging of attention. In her current position with the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, she leads a project on the ethical issues in new approaches to biofuels. She is also a post-doctoral fellow in a multi-centre study on priority setting in German statutory insurance with a project on minimal effectiveness as a rationing criterion, and a lecturer at the Medical School of the University of Muenster. Alena's research at the Brocher Foundation focuses on rationing health care. Together with her colleague Gustav Tinghoeg, she is developing an fMRI study to investigate the neural activity underlying moral decision-making in rationing situations in a sample of doctors.