Professor Satoshi Kodama is a co-investigator of BRIDGES:BKY. His background is moral and political philosophy. He graduated from Kyoto University and is Professor at the Department of Ethics in Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters (since Oct 2012). He holds a PhD in letters (received in Jan 2016). Before becoming the associate professor of ethics at Kyoto University in 2012, he held a lectureship at the department of biomedical ethics in the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine. His research interests include moral theory (utilitarianism), moral methodology (the role of intuition in moral reasoning), ethics and evolution, end-of-life issues, resource allocation, and public health ethics. He has co-authored textbooks on biomedical ethics both in Japanese and English, as well as translating Albert Jonsen’s Clinical Ethics and Michael Dunn and Tony Hope’s Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (2nd ed.), and Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save. His recent work includes Exploring Bioethics Through Manga: Questions of the Meaning of “Life” (Kodama and Natsutaka, 2018), Practical Ethics (in Japanese, 2020), and Covid-19 and Ethics (in Japanese, 2022).