Marleen works in the SALUS project as an MD student. In collaboration with other SALUS team members, she will carry out focus groups with service users, mental health professionals and other stakeholders on the opportunities and risks of self-binding directives.

Marleen studies medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum. She developed an interest in medical ethical questions in the course of her studies and internships and gained insight in another health care system and broadened her perspective on medical ethical issues during an exchange stay at the National University of Ireland in Galway.