Paul Bidmon is a legal research associate and PhD candidate at the Chair of Public Law, Health Law and Legal Philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. At the Ruhr-University, he teaches seminars on constitutional law and fundamental rights.

His research focuses on how different concepts and criteria of death among nations (or states) influence their cooperation in transplantation medicine. In doing so, he seeks to draw general implications for how legal systems deal with scientific uncertainty at the beginning and end of life. During his time at the Kennedy Institute, Paul will examine in particular the coexistence of accepted criteria of death in the United States and the role of the individual in questions regarding the boundaries of human existence that cannot be answered conclusively, whether it be the status of the embryo or the criterion of death at the end of life.