Professor, PhD Mari Kangasniemi is working at the Department of Nursing Science in the University of Turku, Finland and as a Visiting Professor at University of Tartu, Estonia. She has worked at the university as a full-time researcher and teacher since 2002. Her main research interest is focused on nursing and health care ethics and she is also investigating the change of social and health care work and environmental responsibility in patient care. Kangasniemi have approximately 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, act as a research group leader and a member of national and international multidisciplinary research groups, supervisor and teacher for academic degrees and the lecturer and expert in various scientific and societal groups and tasks.