Mirjam Faissner has joined the Institute for the History of Medicine and Ethics in Medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in June 2023. She works on ethical questions in the context of structural discrimination and health, ethics in psychiatry, clinical ethics and public health ethics, combining philosophical analyses with qualitative-empirical research.

From January 2021 to May 2023, Mirjam Faissner worked at the Ruhr University Bochum, first in the Ethics of Psychiatry working group at the LWL University Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine Bochum, then at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine. At the Ruhr University Bochum, she led the projects INSIST, funded by the BMBF, and INTERSECT, funded by the Medical Faculty of the Ruhr University Bochum. She has been part of the SALUS group since January 2021.

Mirjam studied medicine at the University of Hamburg with visits abroad in France, Australia and Sri Lanka. In parallel, she studied Philosophy and French Literature at the University of Hamburg before completing a master’s in Philosophy of Medicine and Psychiatry at King's College London. Her academic performance in her master's program was recognized with the Simon Dally Book Award. Her medical dissertation in Psychiatry at the UKE was awarded the Hedwig Wallis Dissertation Prize in Psychosocial Medicine. In addition, she received the 2022 Young Scholar Award for Ethics in Medicine from the Academy for Ethics in Medicine.

In addition to coercion in psychiatry, her research interests include feminist theory with a focus on intersectionality, participatory research, and epistemic injustice.