Carolina Montero Orphanopoulos

Institution: Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez

Position: Cohort 1 Fellow

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Carolina Montero Orphanopoulos holds a master's degree in Bioethics and a doctorate in Theological Ethics. Her doctoral thesis, entitled "Vulnerability: Towards a More Human Ethics" (Ed. Dykinson, 2022), proposes a Christian ethics grounded in the anthropology of vulnerability, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. In 2024, she was honored with the Centessimus Annus Pro Pontifice Foundation Prize for this work.

With eighteen years of teaching experience at various universities in the country, she has instructed courses in Fundamental Moral, Bioethics, Philosophical Ethics, and various subjects in General Theological Formation. Driven by both vocation and training toward dialogue between theology and other disciplines, she has taught at faculties of theology, liberal arts, and medicine at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Since 2021, she has been working at the Catholic University Silva Henríquez as a research academic at the Egidio Viganò Institute of Theology. Within the research line of Praxis, Christianity, and theology, she focuses on the ethics of vulnerability, global bioethics, and the ecclesial crisis due to abuse. Also the author of the books "Vulnerability, Recognition, and Repair: Christian Praxis and Human Fulfillment" (2012) and "Bioethics and Vulnerability: Deliberating on Life from a More Human Paradigm" (2023), she serves on the Editorial Board of the Ibero-American Journal of Bioethics, the Manuel Larraín Theological Center (PUC - UAH), and the global network CTEWC (Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church).

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