Luis Espericueta

Luis Espericueta is a PhD candidate in bioethics at the Universidad de Granada (Spain), supported by a nationally competitive fellowship and affiliated with the Cátedra Youngner de Bioética Empírica. He is the PI of the Ariadna Project on grief associated with euthanasia in Spain. He is also a member of the research group Ética Salubrista para la Acción, Cuidados y Observación Social and of the Laboratorio Iberoamericano de Salud Pública. 

He has held teaching positions at the Université Le Havre–Normandie and the Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale in France, and has been invited as a visiting lecturer at the Universidad de Costa Rica. His background also includes experience in legal advocacy for Indigenous communities involved in socio-environmental conflicts in his home country of Mexico. 

He has provided bioethical advice to governmental bodies. In 2025, he was consulted by the United Kingdom Parliament during the drafting process of its Assisted Dying Bill, and his reports were published as part of the deliberative process. In the same year, he received first prize in Spain’s national science communication competition in medicine and health for a piece on euthanasia and Alzheimer’s disease. 

Alongside his academic work, he engages in literary writing. In 2024, he received an honourable mention in the first international medical narrative competition for his short story “Rostros”, which explored a real case of euthanasia concerning a person in pretrial detention.