Bernice Elger is head of the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel and associate professor at the Center for Legal Medicine at the University of Geneva where she is head of the Unit for Health Law and Humanitarian Medicine. She studied medicine and theology in Germany, France, Switzerland and the US and obtained her specialty degree in internal medicine (FMH) in Switzerland. She has published widely in the field of clinical and research ethics including the ethics of genetics, big data and machine learning.