Past Visitors

Dr Marcos Alonso Fernandez

Marcos received his PhD in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid and is now teaching Applied Ethics at Yachay Tech University of Ecuador. His research lies at the intersection of philosophy of technology and anthropology, focusing on how technology has shapen and conformed human life, especially its moral condition. He is currently carrying out a research on the ethical and social implications of genetic modification technologies (as CRISPR), particularly on how these technologies could affect individual and collective identities. A second part of this research will stablish a comparison between Europe´s and South America´s reception and reaction to these technologies. He is the translator to Spanish of several works, of which the most important is Nick Bostrom´s Superintelligence. He is also a FIDE Master in chess and has written about sport ethics and philosophy. Marcos’s interests cover a range of topics within Practical Ethics, focusing particularly on the relationship between technology and human condition.

Professor Jonathan Anomaly

Jonathan Anomaly is a faculty fellow at the Institute for Practical Ethics at UCSD, a founding faculty member of the Philosophy, Politics, & Economics program at USD, and is an accademic visitor at the Oxford Uehiro Centre in 2019.  Anomaly has helped build PPE programs at Virginia, UNC, Duke, and Arizona.  His current research focuses on the moral and legal dimensions of synthetic biology, including gene editing, and the use of phage viruses to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.  More generally, he writes about the relative role of social norms and legal institutions in solving different kinds of collective action problems.  Anomaly is co-author of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Oxford University Press, 2015)

Professor Carla Bagnoli

Carla Bagnoli is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Modena (Italy) since 2010. Before then, she was tenured Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she had taught since 1998. She earned her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Milan in 1996 and conducted her doctoral research at Harvard University. She has been Professor II at the University of Oslo, and has held visiting positions at Harvard University, the University of Amsterdam, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In addition to articles on Kantian constructivism, moral epistemology and action theory, Bagnoli has published four monographs on moral dilemmas, practical reasoning, moral authority, and responsibility. She has edited Morality and the Emotions (OUP), and Constructivism in Ethics (CUP). Her current project focuses on emotional resonance, shared agency and individual responsibility.

Professor Sorin Baiasu, Keele University

Sorin is Reader in Philosophy at Keele University (UK) and Guest Research Professor at the University of Vienna (Austria), as part of the ERC Advanced Project “Distortions of Normativity”. He has published one monograph, two edited collections, three journal special issues, and many articles and chapters. Three other edited collections are under contract. His research focuses mainly on the history of ethics (in particular Kant) and analytic political philosophy (particularly, debates on justice and desert). He is currently completing a monograph on A Desert-based Egalitarian Theory of Justice, which draws on articles he published in the Journal of Political Philosophy and Contemporary Political Theory. He is also Principal Investigator for a Marie Curie Intra-European Project with the title “A Kantian Approach to Current Tensions between Legal Obligations and Religious Commitments.”

Dr Konrad Banicki

Konrad Banicki is a lecturer at the Jagiellonian University’s in Krakow Institute of Applied Psychology. His main research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy (virtue ethics, philosophy as therapy, philosophy of science), psychology (trait theory and positive psychology), psychiatry (personality disorders) and psychotherapy (mindfulness and value-related issues). During his stay at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics he will investigate two common conceptualisations of personality disorder as either qualitatively (categorically), or only quantitatively (dimensionally) different from normal personality. They will be subjected to analysis in terms of their: (1) internal structure and logic, (2) empirical validity, and (3) historical background and socio-political consequences.

Dr Robert Bell, University of Calgary

Dr Bell is a consultant Neurologist at the University of Calgary, and his sub-specialty training is in the field of Neuroimmunology and Neurogenetics. During his sabbatical leave in Oxford he will be pursuing studies in Neuroethics. He was trained in Medicine at the University of Alberta and subsequently qualified in Internal Medicine and Neurology at the University of Calgary. Robert undertook further Fellowship training in Neuroimmunology at Stanford University eventually returning to Calgary to an academic practise as a clinician scientist and consultant neurologist. He is a professor in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary as well as being cross appointed to the Institute of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity. Robert remains active in the training of Neurology residents and graduate students in Immunology and he is part of a translational research program related to the development of new therapies for Multiple sclerosis.

Pieter Bonte, Ghent University

Pieter Bonte (MA Phil, LLB) works as a doctoral researcher at the Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG, Ghent University) on the (im)possibility of dignified self-change via biotechnology and selection or manipulation of one’s offspring. Focusing on the dimension of the human enhancement enterprise as an expansion of practical personal liberties (and concomitant responsibilities), he is exploring the validity of an existentialist understanding of the human enhancement enterprise as a ‘condemnation to be free’. As such, the enhancement enterprise may not at all be a ‘dehumanizing’ and ‘alienating’ enterprise as some critics advance, but on the contrary an enterprise that confronts us with the authentic human condition, making ‘existence precede essence’ in a practical, acute way. He was co-editor of the Springer volume Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics and has written on topics ranging from doping over chemical castration to preconception care.  Following his stay at the Uehiro Center Pieter will visit the Hastings Center and the Interdisciplinary Center on Bioethics at Yale and he is set to finish his PhD in the Summer of 2014.

Heather Bradshaw-Martin, University of Bristol

Heather’s PhD (University of Bristol) work on enhancement and disability developed the concept of morphological freedom to include morphological disenfranchisement. She is interested in subjective theories of well-being and epistemic issues arising from the use of qualitative, and other interdisciplinary research methods, in philosophy, especially in ethics. Her main research interests lie in the generalisation of ethical theories beyond human nature and their appropriateness for guiding the design of organisms and their ethical and cooperative systems. Heather’s original training is in engineering and she also has interests in philosophy of science, especially philosophy of physics, and in engineering ethics, especially robotics. Heather has been associated with the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in various capacities since 2004.

Prof Dr Matthias Braun (2023)

Matthias Braun is a full Professor at University Bonn and is leading the chair of social ethics and ethics of emerging technologies. Matthias' research addresses questions of political ethics (the relationship between democracy, civil society and the rule of law) as well as the ethical and governance challenges of new technologies (in particular: Digital Twins, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Health and Genome Editing).  He is Principal Investigator in the Collaborative Research Center "EmpkinS", funded by the German Research Foundation and has recently been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant.

Dr Matthias Braun (2022)

Matthias Braun is interim chair of the “department of ethics” at the University Bonn as well as leader of the young researcher’s group “Ethics and Governance of Emerging Technologies” at Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. Before he has conducted research at Maastricht University an at the University of Bergen. His research addresses ethical and governance challenges of emerging technologies (such as AI, Digital Twins, Robotics) as well as questions of political ethics and governance as for example, research on vulnerability, solidarity, and justice.

Dr Etienne Brown

Étienne Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow in moral and political philosophy whose research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). His current research project "Democracy and Deceit: Rethinking Collective Decision-Making in the Era of Misinformation" explores the impact of misinformation on the civic life of liberal democracies and evaluates potential remedies against its nocuous effects on the mental environment of individuals. It will be carried out at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics (2018-2019) and the Center for Ethics at the University of Toronto (2019-2020). In addition to his work in political epistemology and in democratic theory, Étienne is interested in the ethics of online interaction, virtue ethics and epistemology, the rights of minority cultures and the history of German philosophy. He holds a Ph.D in philosophy from Sorbonne Université and was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de recherche en éthique in Montreal.

Dr Jan Christoph Bublitz

Jan Christoph Bublitz (LLB, JD, PhD) is a post-doc researcher at the University of Hamburg, in criminal law, human rights law & legal philosophy. He is also a young fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany. At the moment, he is the PI of two research projects, one on legal and ethical implications of Brain-Computer Interfaces (www.bci-ethics.de), the other on law & memory (A duty to remember, a right to forget? Behavioral interventions into emotional memory traces). He is also trying to complete his Habilitation on psychology & criminal law. Bublitz has published numerous articles on neuroethics and the implications of neuroscience for law. He has also written extensively on the legal idea of freedom of thought and developed proposals for the recognition of novel human right to mental self-determination. His dissertation was awarded the prize of the Faculty of law of Hamburg University, and he has been awarded the young scholar prize of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (IVR) in 2013. He is the co-editor of a new book series on Law, Neuroscience and Human Behavior at Palgrave McMillan.

Professor Thomas Buller

Tom Buller is Professor of Philosophy at Illinois State University, USA.  The main focus of his work is in neuroethics, particularly issues relating to brain-computer machines (BCI’s), agency, and embodiment. 

Dr Olga Campos, University of Granada

Olga Campos is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Moral Philosophy Department at the University of Granada (Spain). Her research interests are the ethics implications of medical developments for human and non-human animals enhancement, in particular, and the animals rights debate, in general. Currently Olga is working on about if we have a moral obligation to improve the opportunities for welfare in non-human animals (should we use possible advances in biomedicine to enhance their lives quality?). She obtained a European PhD in Philosophy in 2011.

Dr Alice Cavolo, 2023

Alice is a postdoc at KU Leuven. Her research focuses on the ethical decision-making for resuscitation of extremely preterm infants. In particular, she integrates normative and empirical methodology to understand how to decide whether to resuscitate preterm infants and how future technologies will affect this decision-making. 

Professor Bruce Chapman

Bruce Chapman is a Professor of Law and a former editor of the University of Toronto Law Journal. He holds a law degree from the University of Toronto, and a doctorate in economics from Cambridge University. Prior to attending law school Professor Chapman served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario and as Associate for Law and Philosophy at the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values. In 1991-92 he was appointed a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow at the Yale Law School and since then has held visiting appointments at the University of Virginia School of Law (1995), Oxford University (1995 and 2008), the Australian National University (1996), the University of Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires (2000 and 2001), the University of Louvain in Belgium (2001), and the National University of Singapore (2007). In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and during his 2018-19 sabbatical leave he will be the Oliver Smithies Lecturer and Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and the Neil MacCormick Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Andreas Christiansen (2021)

Andreas Christiansen is a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. He is working in the project Convergent Ethics and the Ethics of Controversy, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which investigates ethical, psychological and political-philosophical aspects of the regulation of novel technologies. His current work concerns (i) how citizens’ views can and should be respected when citizens are ignorant of relevant matters of fact; (ii) whether efforts to ‘debias’ people are manipulative or paternalistic; (iii) the possibility and implications of interpreting claims made in applied ethics as being subject to a requirement of justifiability to all reasonable views; (iv) the moral-epistemological import of agreement and disagreement among different moral perspectives. In addition, Andreas has interests in the ethics of risk, environmental ethics, and the ethics of genetic engineering in non-medical contexts.

Professor Margaret Coady

Margaret M. Coady is an Honorary Researcher at the Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne. She has published extensively on children’s and families’ rights and on professional ethics, has held Research Fellowships at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio, Italy, the Kennedy Institute for Ethics at Georgetown University. She has received three Australian Research Council grants and was a Chief Investigator in the successful application to establish the Centre for Philosophy and Public Ethics.  She has lectured on children’s rights in universities in Singapore, China, the U.K., and the U.S.A. She was an ethics consultant to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry, the Australian Association of Social Workers, the Victorian College of Optometry. She was a member of the Psychosurgery Review Board, the Victorian Government Child Death Review Committee, the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority, and is still a member of the Victoria Police Human Research Ethics Committee, and the Royal Women’s Hospital Ethics Advisory Group. She is at present completing a chapter called The Nature of Professions: implications for psychiatrists for Psychiatric Ethics ed S. Bloch O.U.P. 2020, and working on a project entitled Children, Rights and Freedoms.

Professor Tony Coady

Tony Coady is one of Australia's best-known philosophers. He has an outstanding international reputation for his writings on epistemology and on political violence and political ethics. His book Testimony: a Philosophical Study (OUP, 1992) has been particularly influential and more recently he published Morality and Political Violence (CUP, 2008) In 1990 he founded and became director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues at the University of Melbourne, the first centre in Australia to be concerned with broad issues of philosophy and public affairs. CPPI later became absorbed into CAPPE where Coady was Deputy-Director for its first four years. In 2005, he gave the Uehiro Lectures on Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, which were subsequently published in 2008 by Oxford University Press under the title, Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics.See the 2005 Lectures webpage for details of Professor Coady's lectures.

David Coady, University of Tasmania

David Coady is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published on a wide variety of topics in applied philosophy. Much of his work is in the area of applied epistemology. This includes work on expertise, conspiracy theories, rumour, Wikipedia, the blogosphere, and the epistemology of democracy. He has also published on metaphysics, philosophy of law, police ethics, the ethics of horror films, and the ethics of cricket. He is the editor of Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (2006), the author of What To Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (2012), and co‐author of The Climate Change Debate: An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry (2013).

Alexandra Couto

Alexandra Couto is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, Oslo University. She holds a MPhil and a DPhil in Political Theory from Oxford University. Her recent research focuses on the three following topics: the role of responsibility in luck egalitarianism, the conditions for the justifiability of interpersonal forgiveness and issues relating to the Beneficiary Principle, a principle according to which we might accrue remedial duties by benefitting (innocently) from injustices. Her recently published book Liberal Perfectionism: The Reasons that Goodness Gives defends a minimal form of liberal perfectionism.

Natalie Colaneri

Natalie Colaneri received her Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College in 2012. She has a strong interest in drug use and addiction, and is currently working on a research project at the Uehiro Centre studying the ethics of pharmacological cognitive enhancement in higher education. Natalie has previously interned for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and has pursued research on ADHD stimulant diversion with a developmental-behavioral pediatrician at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY. Natalie hopes to become an addiction psychiatrist one day while continuing to study the future implications of drug use for cognitive enhancement.

Mo Costandi

Moheb Costandi trained as a developmental and molecular neurobiologist and now works as a freelance writer specialising in neuroscience. His work has appeared in Nature, New Scientist, Science, and Scientific American, among other publications, and he also writes the long-standing and highly regarded Neurophilosophy blog, hosted by The Guardian. Costandi is the author of 50 Human Brain Ideas You Really Need to Know, published by Quercus in 2013, and his second book, Neuroplasticity, is due to be published in 2016 by MIT Press. He has written extensively about neuroethics, and has served on the board of directors of the International Neuroethics Society since March 2014. As a visiting scholar at the Uehiro Centre, he is researching and writing about the ethics of voluntary amputation.

Ben Curtis

Ben Curtis is a Research Fellow working on the Wellcome-Trust funded project 'Neurointerventions in Crime Prevention: An Ethical Analysis'. He obtained his BA and MPhil in philosophy at the University of Birmingham before completing his PhD at the University of Nottingham in 2008. Ben has published widely and has publications in ethics, metaphysics, aesthetics, the philosophy of language, politics, and the philosophy of mind. Ben is also a lecturer in philosophy at Nottingham Trent University.

Darlei Dall'Agnol (February 2015 - January 2016)

Darlei Dall'Agnol is Professor of Ethics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brasil. He completed his PhD at the Bristol University, UK (2001), on the concept of intrinsic value. He has published several articles and books on ethics including two on bioethics. Currently, he is researcher of the CNPq (National Counsel for Scientific and Technological Development) working on the project "Care & Respect: rethinking the metaethical and normative basis of bioethics"

Professor Marcelo de Araujo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Olga Campos

Marcelo is professor for Ethics at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and professor for Philosophy of Law at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.  He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Konstanz University (Germany) with a thesis on Rene Descartes in 2002. Marcelo is particularly interested in the tradition of the social contract both as a political and as moral theory. In 2007-2008 he was granted a one-year scholarship by the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation in order to pursue a research on the concept of moral dispositions in the context of moral contractarianism at Konstanz University. Marcelo also has an interest in international relations theory. He is currently working on a paper on the relationship between political realism and the prospect of using moral enhancement in order to deal with major threats to mankind in the future. 

Dr Helen de Cruz, University of Leuven, Belgium

Helen de Cruz is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Research Foundation Flanders, University of Leuven, and a Templeton Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD thesis on the philosophy of mathematics in 2007. Her current interests include philosophy of cognitive science and philosophy of religion. For the Templeton Fellowship, she investigates the cognitive basis of intuitions in natural theology.

Dr Johan de Smedt, Ghent University, Belgium

Johan de Smedt is a Research Fellow at Ghent University. His PhD thesis entitled "Common Minds, Uncommon Thoughts: A  philosophical anthropological investigation of uniquely human creative behaviour", with an emphasis on artistic ability, religious reflection, and scientific study, was defended in 2011. He works on the implications of cognitive science of religion for philosophy of religion, and on the cognitive basis of scientific practice.

Mirjam de Vos, Academic Medical Centre of Amsterdam (October 2014)

Mirjam de Vos is a researcher in the field of medical ethics and medical communication. She studied Orthopedagogiek (Child Psychology and Education) at the Leiden University. She works in the Academic Medical Centre (AMC) of Amsterdam. There she combines her research with working as an ethical consultant for the Department of Paediatrics and being chairman of the Paediatric Ethics Committee. Besides her work in the AMC she is senior consultant for the Centre of Consultancy and Expertise (CCE). This centre, funded by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, provides exceptional care to individuals with disabilities whose quality of life is in danger or is becoming seriously compromised. Mirjam’s current research focuses on end-of-life decision-making, involvement of children and parents in medical decisions and conflict prevention and resolution.

Antonio Diéguez

Antonio Diéguez is  professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Málaga, Spain. Currently, he is the first elected president of the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Filosofía de la Biología (AIFIBI). His first main research interest was the contemporary debate about scientific realism. On this issue he published a book and several papers. In these works he defended a moderate scientific realism. He has also published several papers and two books as a co-author on the difficulties to get control of our modern technology. He has extended his research interests to the field of Philosophy of Biology, working especially on the evolutionary explanation of the mind and its philosophical consequences. He has published a book on this topic (La evolución del conocimiento: De la mente animal a la mente humana, 2011). He is also the author of a handbook of philosophy of biology titled La vida bajo escrutinio. Una introducción a la filosofía de la biología (2012) and a handbook of philosophy of science titled Filosofía de la ciencia (2005).

Carter J Dillard (Trinity 2016)

Carter is founder and chair of HavingKids.org, an organization that promotes smaller families working together to plan for and invest more in each child. He is also Director of Litigation for the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and previously served as an Honors Program appointee to the U.S. Department of Justice, and legal adviser to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He has taught on the faculties or held appointments at Lewis and Clark Law School, Emory University School of Law, and Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law.

Ned Dobos, University of New South Wales

Ned Dobos is lecturer in ethics at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and an adjunct research fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. His research specialisation is in the ethics of war and political violence, with particular interests in armed humanitarian intervention, pacifism, and the moral character of military service. Ned is the author of Insurrection and Intervention: the Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press 2012), and The New Pacifism: Just War in the Real World (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Ned also works on business ethics and corporate social responsibility. He recently co-edited Global Financial Crisis: the Ethical Issues with Thomas Pogge and Christian Barry. Ned is currently a visiting scholar at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

Dr Alexandru Dragomir (July 2022)

Alexandru Dragomir is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Bucharest) and a member of the Research Centre in Applied Ethics (of the same university). He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy (BA, MA, PhD) and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science (BA) of the University of Bucharest.
Alexandru's research interests lie at the intersection of epistemology and applied ethics (the ethics of human enhancement and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence). Currently he directs a postdoctoral research project on assessing the consequences of radical cognitive enhancement, using the conceptual tools of modal epistemology. 

Martin Dresler, The Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich

Dr Martin Dresler is an academic visitor to both the FHI and the Uehiro Centre.  Martin is working in a neuroenhancement project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. He has a background in Psychology, Philosophy and Mathematics, and  is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich. Besides the neuroscience of sleep and dreaming, his research concentrates on ways of improving memory capacity.

Albert Duran (Hilary 2016)

Albert Barqué-Duran is a PhD researcher in Cognitive Science at the Department of Psychology at City University London thanks to a fellowship from the U.S. government. His research focuses on Judgment, Decision Making, Moral Psychology, Behavioural Ethics and Computational/Mathematical Modelling in Cognitive Science. Albert also has a M.S. in Brain, Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences from the Universitat de Barcelona and a BA in Economics from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. He’s worked as a Teacher’s Assistant and Research Assistant in Decision Making and Behavioral Sciences. The other side of Albert is an artist. He translates scientific concepts into surrealist paintings. He explains science through art and proposes a reinterpretation-actualisation of the surrealist movement through the contemporary knowledge about the human mind.

John Francis, University of Utah

John G. Francis, PhD, is Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. From 1995 to 2011, Francis served as the Senior Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs of the University of Utah.  He is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. His current research interest is in the political condition of people who divide their time between more than one state and the implications for access to services and political participation. While in Oxford, he will be working on a book on the political rights of part-time residents and on several co-authored pieces with Leslie Francis.  He has been appointed a Beaufort visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall for Hilary and Trinity terms 2012. 

Leslie Francis, University of Utah

Leslie Francis, Ph.D., J.D., is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law and Alfred C. Emery Professor of Law at the University of Utah.  At Utah, she also holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics, in the Department of Political Science, and in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the Division of Public Health.  Francis is co-chair of the subcommittee on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security of the U.S. National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (the second-oldest federal advisory committee, NCVHS advises HHS and CDC on issues of health data and population statistics) and an elected vice-president of the International Society for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR).  While visiting the Uehiro Centre, Francis will be working on several articles on aggregate data and privacy and an article on migrants and the right to health care, both with her husband John Francis.  She will also be continuing to work on questions of disability and will be preparing a proposal for a handbook on reproductive ethics for Oxford University Press.  She is also Beaufort visiting fellow at Lady Margaret Hall for Hilary and Trinity terms.

Dr. Roberto Fumagalli

Dr Fumagalli is a Lecturer at King’s College London and a Research Associate at the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests cover a wide range of areas, including philosophy of economics, philosophy of science, moral and political philosophy, philosophy and public policy. He has published articles in several international journals, including Philosophical Studies, Philosophy of Science, Economics and Philosophy, Biology and Philosophy, Erkenntnis, Social Choice and Welfare, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Bioethics, Synthese, Studia Leibnitiana, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, the Journal of Economic Methodology. 

Dr Zhen-Rong Gan (2022)

Dr Zhen-Rong Gan is from Taiwan and received a Ph.D. in Philosophy. She is focusing on the philosophical issues of ethical AI and having a secondary interest in the evaluation of policy making for AI ethics, research ethics, and research integrity, analysing the concept of human rights and philosophical theories as well. Ethical AI, especially in exploring the normative framework of artificial moral agents and moral functionalism. Research ethics, including informed consent, justice, conflict of interests, transnational policy colonization in research ethics committees and political decolonization in indigenous peoples in Taiwan. Research integrity, including developing a governance framework for Taiwan universities. Human rights, especially in the debate of political and orthodox conceptions, structural and substantive accounts.

Zhen-Rong is associate research fellow in the department of Power Mechanical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, and collaborate with the Computational Intelligence Lab to explore ethical algorithms. She is also a member of the Centre for Application and Development of AI in Humanity and Social Science at school. She writes journals articles, conference papers, popular scientific journal articles, and newspaper editorials. She also teaches undergraduates in the centre of general education, medical school, and college of science.

Professor Stephen Gardiner

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics. His publications center on topics such as climate justice, the ethics (or otherwise) of geoengineering, intergenerational ethics, the precautionary principle and Aristotle’s ethical theory. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, 2016) and Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His articles have appeared in journals such as Ethics, Ethics and International Affairs, the Journal of Political Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy and Philosophy and Public Affairs. He is currently editing the Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford, under contract) and working on two monographs.

Dr Rosa Geutzen (2022)

Rosa Geurtzen’s research interests are in the intersect of ethics and pediatrics. She is a visiting researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics from April 11th to June 10th (2022). She is a neonatologist from the Radboud university medical center in the Netherlands and works (i.e.) on complex decision-making and counseling in birth at the limits of viability. Her cum laude Ph.D. thesis was on prenatal counseling in extreme prematurity (obtained in 2019). She will be visiting the center to work with Professor Dominic Wilkinson on a conceptual, ethical analysis to better understand what it means to clarify values with parents of unborn children, neonates and infants in decision-making regarding LST.

Prof Bernward Gesang

Chair of Philosophy at Mannheim University, Germany. Areas of Research: Normative Ethics, especially foundation of utilitarianism; Applied Ethics, especially climate ethics.

Marta Gil, University of Valencia

Marta Gil is a researcher in Neuroethics. She received her bachelor of Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s degree in Ethics and Democracy from the University of Valencia.  She has published articles and presented in conferences on various topics including the problem of freedom and the relation between neuroscience and philosophy. She is currently working on a doctoral thesis of Neuroethics and actively participating as a member of a society that investigates Neuroethics from the department of Moral Philosophy, Politics and Law at the University of Valencia.

Professor Lynn Gillam

Lynn is an experienced clinical ethicist, originally trained in philosophy (MA, 1988, Oxon) and bioethics (PhD, Monash, 2000).  Lynn is Professor in the Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne; and Academic Director of the Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne. At the University of Melbourne, Lynn teaches medical ethics in the MD curriculum; ethics and qualitative research design in the MPH, and supervises PhD, Masters and Honours students.
At RCH, Lynn works in clinical ethics case consultation, provides policy advice and leads research into a range of issues in paediatric clinical ethics. Her current research interests include the ethics of  truth-telling to children, management of children with Differences of Sex Development, fertility preservation for pre-pubertal children undergoing gonadotoxic medical treatment, and use of high-cost investigational drugs. 

Dr Elsa González-Esteban

Senior Lecturer of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Universitat Jaume I Castellón, Spain. Degree in Humanities and PhD in Philosophy (business ethics) from the Universitat Jaume I. Extraordinary Doctorate Award 2002. She has expanded her studies in business and economic ethics at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) and the London School of Economics and Political Science (London, Great Britain). Her research interests focuses on discursive ethics, applied ethics, business and economic ethics, stakeholder theory, social responsibility of the company and organizations, cosmopolitan governance, economic governance,  codes of values and neuroethics and organizations. In her latest research, she has edited the collective on Ethics and Governance. Towards a cosmpolitism of the 21st century (Comares, 2013) or published in journals of high scientific and international quality such as Journal of Business Ethics, Veritas. Revista de Filosofía y Teología or Ethics & Behavior recently together with R. Feenstra "Self-Control: A Critical Study of Achievements and Challenges in the Pursuit of Ethical Advertising Through an Advertising Self-Regulation System" Journal of Business Ethics (2017); “El desarrollo de la ética empresarial ante los avances de la neurociencia organizacional y la neuroética” Pensamiento (2016) or “Guidelines to opening spaces for shaping and training moral judgment in organizations” (forthcoming  in Springer, Advances in Neuroethics Series, Publication date: 2018). Since 2015, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of EBEN Spain, where she intends to give a boost to the cooperation of all researchers and companies interested in Spain for the ethical management of the organizations. And both from her research at the Universitat Jaume I and in her collaboration with the ÉTNOR Foundation she has a long and extensive trajectory of implementation and development of management and ethics systems in companies and organizations.

Professor John-Stewart Gordon

John-Stewart Gordon, MA in philosophy and history from the University of Konstanz (2001) and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Göttingen (2005), Germany. He is full professor and Head of the Research Cluster for Applied Ethics at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. From 2010-2016, he was Co-director of the Hans Jonas-Institute at the University of Siegen, Germany. Furthermore, he is member of the board of Bioethics since 2007, general editor of the newly established book series Philosophy and Human Rights at Brill, and he has been area-editor and board member of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2007-2014). John has written and edited several books in the context of practical philosophy and also published peer-reviewed articles and special issues at international leading journals and encyclopaedias. He taught philosophy and bioethics at several universities in Germany, Canada, and Lithuania. His current research project on moral expertise is funded by the Straniak Foundation and enables him to conduct his research at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford (9-11.2017), the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto (1-4.2018), and at An Foras Feasa at Maynooth University (7-9.2018).

Associate Professor Benjamin Gregg

Benjamin Gregg (B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. Princeton University, Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin) teaches social and political theory, as well as bioethics, informed by political science, sociology, and philosophy, at the University of Texas Austin but also in Germany, Japan, Austria and China. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles. Two of his books, Moralities Thick, Thin Politics (Duke UP, 2003) and Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms (SUNY, 2003), confront challenges of social justice in complex modern societies, especially in liberal democratic states. Another two books, Human Rights as Social Construction (Cambridge, 2012) and The Human Rights State (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), analyze problems and prospects for justice across national borders. Current book-in-progress, Human Nature as Cultural Design: The Political Challenge of Genetic Enhancement, explores rapid biotechnological developments leading to “human nature as cultural design,” transforming the nature/culture distinction as previously understood in various ways. What constitutes genetic enhancement and how should it be evaluated normatively and legally? What social and political consequences may it have within and across national borders? What general principles are needed to view these developments in terms of collective and individual justice, and to legally regulate them? Should we understand human genetic engineering as a specifically political act? How can ordinary citizens participate in debates about relevant rapid biotechnological developments and about how best to respond as a self-determining community? What can we learn from various countries’ experience with issues of ethics and regulation so far? He has pursued this project variously as a Fulbright Professorship at the University of Linz, Austria, 2016; in Visiting Scholar positions at The Hastings Institute (Garrison, NY) and the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, 2016; and now as a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, 2018. He has delivered invited lectures on this project in Sweden, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Spain, Austria, the USA, Brazil, and China. In 2019 he will carry forward his Uehiro work in researching past and current bioethical public policy as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, examining the government’s Human Biomedical Research Act and the work of the Bioethics Advisory Committee.  

Robert T. Hall. 

Bob is Professor of Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Querétaro (UAQ - Mexico) and Director of the Bioethics Unit.  Currently he is Principal Investigator of the Querétaro branch of the Caribbean Research Ethics Education Initiative sponsored by the Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health - USA).  He has Ph.D. degrees in philosophy (Drew University) and sociology (University of Pittsburgh) and has published books and articles on moral education, Emile Durkheim, biotechnology, research ethics and casuistry.  His current interests are social research ethics, and neuroethics.  He is a member of research ethics committees at UAQ and the Institute of Neurobiology of the National University of Mexico.

Dr Dan Hall-Favin

Dan Hall-Flavin's academic and clinical work has focused primarily in the practice of addiction psychiatry and transplant psychiatry. He is a Consultant in Psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in the US, and a senior faculty member of the Mayo Medical School. He has also been involved in research in the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant response, as additionally informed by collaborative metabolomic research. He has a keen interest in neuroethics as it informs the evolution and practice of personalized medicine, as well as in the application of the humanities in medical education.  His work in bioethics at Mayo centers on the selection of patients for organ transplantation, the application of deep brain stimulation to patients with intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the application of bioethics in personalizing the treatment of addictive disorders.

Jes Lynning Harfeld (Trinity 2015)

Jes Lynning Harfeld is assistant professor of bioethics and health care philosophy at the Centre for Applied Philosophy at Aalborg University in Denmark. He received his M.A. in philosophy and his PhD in ethics from Aarhus University. He is currently working on a number of ethical issues in relation to non–anthropocentric ethics, such as the ethics of food and agriculture, hunting and animal research. Within health care philosophy Jes L. Harfeld is mainly interested in the ethical dilemmas concerning genetic diagnostics, reproductive technologies and human enhancement.

Jennifer Hawkins

Jennifer Hawkins, Ph.D. (Princeton University), is Associate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Duke University and a core faculty member of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine. Her research interests in philosophy focus on well-being, happiness, theories of emotion and practical reason, and notions of self. Her interests in medical ethics are focused on disability, the care of patients with dementia, assessment of decision-making capacity, psychiatric illness, and the nature of suffering. She has published in Ethics, Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Utilitas, The Hastings Center Report, and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. She is co-editor with Ezekiel J. Emanuel of Exploitation and Developing Countries: The Ethics of Clinical Research (Princeton University Press, 2008). She is currently writing a book on well-being, for which work she was awarded a 2020-2021 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Dr Adam Henschke

Adam is an applied ethicist, working on areas that cross over between ethics, technology and security. He is a senior lecturer at the National Security College (NSC) at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia and a senior research fellow with Delft University of Technology (TUD) in The Hague, The Netherlands. His research concerns ethical and philosophical analyses of information technology and its uses, military ethics and on relations between ethics and national security. He has published on surveillance, emerging military technologies and intelligence and cyberspace. He is also interested in moral psychology, experimental philosophy and their relations to decision making and policy development. His most recent book is “Ethics In An Age Of Surveillance”, 2017, Cambridge University Press.

Anders Herlitz, University of Gothenburg

Anders is a researcher at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. His major research interests are: the intersection of value pluralism, value conflicts, incommensurability, decision making strategies and practical reasoning, in application and in theory. In Gothenburg, his work has circulates primarily around shared decision making and adherence in relation to self-care-dependent medical treatments.  During his time at the Centre he plans to continue the work on decision making in human enhancement issues that he initiated as part of his PhD work.

Richard Hull

Richard Hull is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland. He obtained the B.Phil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford and completed his Ph.D as a teaching assistant at Keele University. He is the author of Deprivation and Freedom (2007) and has published on a number of topics including freedom, disability, genetic technologies, parental responsibility and agent intention. His current work concerns the relations between genetic technologies and social justice. He is a Director of the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis (COBRA), which he launched as Ireland’s first bioethics centre in 2001. He served two terms on the Irish Council for Bioethics and is currently a member of the Irish Government’s National Advisory Committee on Bioethics. He teaches in the areas of ethics, biomedical ethics, political theory and applied philosophy.

Dr. Paul Hutchins

Paul is Senior Staff Physician to the Child Development Unit at The Children's Hospital, at Westmead, Sydney Australia.  He is Senior Paediatric Consultant to The Children's Hospital Education Research Institute, which he helped establish.  Born in Wales, he studied medicine at Oxford and London with wide experience in general and subspecialist children's medicine. His particular interests in clinical practice, teaching and research are in communication disorders and behavioural problems, particularly in language disorders, learning and attention deficits and autism.  He has participated in many advisory bodies for professional practice and policy.  He has lectured widely in Australia, Britain, Europe, Asia and South Africa with various professionals and parent support groups. He has contributed internationally to guidelines for ADHD management, including collaborative resources for schools. He has contributed to national and state bodies for autism. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel for UK Neurosciences and Special Education Forum. Paul will explore the ethical perspectives of achieving comprehensive collaborative evidence-based management in developmental disorders and particularly medication as that is the exclusive role of physicians.

Dr Marcello Ienca (9th Oct - 4th Dec 2021)

Dr Marcello Ienca is a Principal Investigator at the College of Humanities at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne where he leads the ERA-NET funded Intelligent Systems Ethics research unit. Dr Ienca's scholarship focuses on the ethical implications of emerging technologies. In particular, he investigates the broader implications of new (and often converging) sociotechnical trends such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data, digital epidemiology, robotics, assisted living, digital health, social media, and neurotechnology. Dr Ienca is an appointed member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Steering Committee on Neurotechnology and an expert advisor to the Council of Europe’s Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Bioethics Committee. Ienca is a member of the Editorial Board of several academic journals such as Neuroethics, Bioethica Forum, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics. His research was featured in academic journals such as Neuron, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Medicine, the Journal of Medical Ethics and media outlets such as Nature, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Times, Die Welt, The Independent, the Financial Times and others. 

Dr Ryoko Ishikawa-Kodama (2019-2020)

Dr Ryoko Ishikawa-Kodama is an associate professor at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan since 2013. Besides serving as a director (associate dean) of Division of International Affairs, she has been teaching and conducting researches on normative political theory. Since she received her Ph.D. in political science at Waseda University in 2009, her main research interest has been the normative and practical aspects of multiculturalism, such as language rights and national self-determination in Canada and Japan. She currently works on two research projects. One project explores the role of secularism in light of feminism in forming biomedical policies, and the other examines the majority rights to defend its culture.

William Isdale, University of Queensland

Will has just completed his 4th year of study (out of 5.5) for a dual Bachelor of Arts (majors in philosophy and politics) / Bachelor of Laws degree at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.  During his visit he plans to write some short articles on a range of different topics in practical ethics. Previously he has written on the sale of human body parts, organ donation systems and the ethics of education. He is currently interested in writing about moral lessons from the First World War (given the centenary this year) and ‘just war’ theory, the ethics of different voting systems, and restrictions on the freedom to associate (related to anti-gang legislation in Australia).

Melanie Ann Jansen

Dr Melanie Jansen is a medical doctor completing advanced training in General Paediatrics and Paediatric Intensive Care Medicine. She is interested in everything to do with critical care but particularly congenital cardiac disease and trauma management. She is currently involved in research on blood coagulation in trauma. Since medical school, Melanie has had a strong interest in ethics and to pursue this, she completed a Master of Arts in Philosophy during her medical specialist training. Melanie was instrumental in developing the Centre for Children’s Health Ethics and Law (CCHEL) at Children’s Health Queensland, and continues to sit on the steering committee and be a member of the response group for the Clinical Ethics Consultation Service. Melanie has also undertaken training in mediation through the Resolution Institute. She is currently travelling on a Churchill Fellowship to research ways to enrich and inform development of paediatric clinical ethics services. In her ‘spare’ time she tends to multiple cats, a few chickens and her wine cellar, and tries to move as much as possible. She is interested in promoting the arts and creativity in medicine, in building functioning teams in an age of hyper-specialisation, and in bringing more philosophy into the clinical setting.

Pedro Jesús Teruel

Pedro is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy in the University of València. He obtained his PhD, with extraordinary award, with a Thesis about the mind-body problem in the works of Immanuel Kant and specialised further in Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy. On this issue he has published papers, in different languages, in journals like Kant-Studien and books like Mind, Brain and Anthropology in Kant (2008). Other topics of his research are the post-Kantian German thought and the relationship between science and philosophy, like in his book Philosophy and Science in Hypatia (2011). His current research lies at the intersection of the philosophical anthropology, the theory of knowledge and the neurophilosophy. Pedro Jesús is editor-in-chief of the international journal Revista de Estudios Kantianos. He teaches in the area of trends in contemporary philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of València.

Dr Monique Jonas

Monique Jonas is an ethical theorist based at the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her current research includes a project on the ethics of advice-giving and another on the role of dignity in decision-making about withdrawal of treatment for severely compromised infants.

With respect to advice-giving, she is developing a normative framework for the practice of advising and applying it across a range of professional and personal contexts. Monique is interested in the extent and nature of permissible persuasion in advising, and the way that advice can alter the attribution of responsibility for acts, amongst many other questions (such as the role of confidential advice to a person in public office).

With respect to dignity, Monique has been analysing recent English High Court judgements about withdrawal of treatment for severely compromised infants. She has developed an account of the conception of dignity that underpins these judgements, and examined the role that the discourse of dignity plays within them.

Monique is broadly interested in the relationship between families and the state; how to assess social practices of attributing responsibility to agents and groups; social licence, and in ways of representing indigenous and minority values in ethics teaching.

Prof Workineh Kelbessa (2022)

Workineh Kelbessa is Professor of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He earned his undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, his Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and his PhD degree in Philosophy from the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University, United Kingdom. He is the author of two books and numerous articles in referred journals, book chapters and invited reviews. His research focuses on environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, development ethics, climate ethics, water ethics, globalization, philosophy of love and sex, African philosophy, and indigenous knowledge. His work currently focuses on water ethics. In 2012, he was appointed by the Director General of UNESCO as a member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), on which he served until 2019. He is also a former Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and a member of the International Panel on Social Progress, and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Moreover, he is a member of several other international professional associations. He was a member of the editorial board of Environmental Ethics (2011-2021). He has also served on the Editorial Boards of various journals including Health Care Philosophy and Policy (2006-), the African Journal of Environmental Ethics and Values (2010-2014 and 2019-), and Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2021-).

You can find more information about Kelbessa at: Workineh Kelbessa | College of Social Science

Arnon Keren

Arnon Keren is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa, and the co-chair of the Psyphas BA Honors Program in Philosophy and Psychology. He received his Ph.D from Columbia University, with a thesis on scientific testimony and epistemic authority. His research interests are in epistemology, especially social epistemology, in philosophy of science and in ethics. He has particular interest in testimonial knowledge, epistemic trust, informed consent, and the relations between science and democracy. He is currently pursuing a research project on the epistemological, ethical and political significance of knowledge-inequalities.

Dr. Satoshi Kodama (2019-2020)

Dr. Satoshi Kodama’s background is moral and political philosophy. He graduated from Kyoto University and is associate professor at the department of ethics in Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters. Formerly 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 Tony Hope's Medical Ethics: A Very Short Introduction, and Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save.  As well as writing many journal articles, he has published Utility and Intuition (in Japanese, 2011, which won the Watsuji prize by the Japanese Society for Ethics), An Introduction to Utilitarianism (2012).

Dr Christina Lamb (2022)

Dr. Christina Lamb is a Clinical Bioethicist and Registered Nurse whose program of research focuses on conscience in relation to philosophy, theology, bioethics and healthcare as well as end-of-life ethics for pediatric populations. She holds a Ph.D. (2018) in Philosophy of Nursing from the University of Western Ontario, with specialization in education and ethics. She has been a Clinical Ethics Fellow at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (USA) and has lectured as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Alberta (Alberta, Canada) specializing in ethics with cross-teaching in Philosophical and Theological Studies in St. Joseph’s Catholic College at the University of Alberta. Since 2020 Dr. Lamb has been a Fellow in Science-Engaged Theology (SET) at the School of Divinity within the University of St. Andrews (Scotland, UK). Dr. Lamb has done post-doctoral work in the Biomedical Ethics Unit in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of McGill (Canada), and she is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University (Canada) and a Research Associate in Bioethics at the University of Toronto (Canada). 

Francisco Lara (June 2016)

Francisco Lara is a lecturer of Moral Philosophy at the University of Granada, Spain. His research interests during the last years were about conciliation between personal values and ethical consequentialism and about ethical consideration of animals. Currently he is working in diferent topics of bioethics and neuroethics. Francisco is principal researcher of a funded project about ethics and politics of human enhancement, where some members of Uehiro Centre also participate. Recently, he has applied to the spanish government for an international project about artificial intelligence and moral enhancement.

Wojciech Lewandowski

Wojciech Lewandowski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. His doctoral dissertation entitled „Future and responsibility” concerns the problem of justification of responsibility for future people. He is taking part in the project „The Legal and Ethical Standards of Reproductive Genetics” (National Science Centre SONATA BIS grant 2014-2017). His primary research interest is justification of special obligations in bioethical contexts

Prof Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Kasper is a professor in political theory at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and professor II in philosophy at the Arctic University of Norway-Tromsø. He holds a D.Phil. degree from Oxford (1994). Since then he has written extensively on moral and political philosophy - especially on discrimination and egalitarianism. His most recent book - Affirmative Action: The Key Argument - is coming out with OUP later this year. While at the Oxford Uehiro Centre he will mostly be working on a new project on the positionality of blame and secondarily on various issues in relation to discrimination, for example, algorithmic discrimination.

Francisco Javier López Frías,  University of Valencia

Francisco Javier López Frías graduated in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Valencia, where he also did a Master's course on "Ethics and Democracy" at the Department of Moral Philosophy and presented a Master’s Thesis on the topic of Sports Ethics. He is a researcher member of two investigation groups within his department: GIBUV ("Grupo de Investigación en Bioética de la Universidad de Valencia") and a new one focused on issues related to Neuroethics, Neuroeconomy and Neuropolitics. Javier was awarded the FPU pre-doctoral scholarship from the Spanish Council in 2010 and he is currently a PhD Student at the University of Valencia. He researches into Sports Ethics and Human Enhancement, but is also interested in Political Philosophy, Normative Ethics and Applied Ethics.

José-Félix Lozano

José-Félix Lozano is Tenure Lecturer for Business Ethics and Social Corporate Responsibility, Applied Ethics, and Development Ethics, at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), and Researcher at INGENIO Institute (CSIC-UPV). His research topics are: neuroethics, business ethics, business ethics education and Ethics of Development. He was Fellow of the DAAD (German academic exchange program) and of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation). He has published several articles in the Journal of Business Ethics, Science and Engineering Ethics, Journal of Philosophy of Education, and Journal of Academic Ethics, among others.

Prof Douglas MacLean, 2023

Douglas MacLean is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.  His research and publications are mostly in practical ethics and have focused on issues of risk and risk analysis and how values are integrated into decision making techniques for public policy.  These include such issues as obligations to future generations, value of human life, and more recently a range of issues in environmental ethics including our moral relation to animals and matters of climate change.  He is currently working on two (unrelated) projects: the idea of moral progress and the meaning and value of wilderness.  And outdated website is available at: https://philosophy.unc.edu/people/douglas-maclean/

Dr Jakob Mainz, 2022-23

Jakob Mainz is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is part of a research group working on the ethics and epistemology of AI, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. He holds a PhD in Applied Philosophy from Aalborg University. He has published on privacy rights, AI ethics, global justice, philosophy of law, and medical ethics. His research has been published in venues like Res Publica, Journal of Global Ethics, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Journal of Medical Ethics.

At the moment, his primary research interests relate to the ethics and epistemology of algorithmic decision-making in healthcare, such as the ‘Opacity Problem’ and the ‘Double Standard Problem’.  During his visit in Oxford, he will primarily work on a series of papers in the intersection between medical ethics and AI ethics on so-called ‘Patent Preference Predictors’.    

Dr Eric Mandelbaum

Eric Mandelbaum’s main research interests lie in the philosophy of psychology and cognitive science. His work has focused on belief (acquisition, change, and storage) and issues in cognitive architecture (such as the structure of thought, the modularity of mind, and the mechanics of inference). Current research projects include explaining how technology makes propaganda more effective, examining the role of one’s self-conception in belief change, understanding reasoning with contradictory beliefs, and investigating to what extent phonetics encodes valenced properties. His work has been published in journals such as Nous, Mind and Language, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy and elsewhere. Eric is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including from the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and the Cognitive Science Society. He is currently working on a book manuscript on the psychofunctional theory of belief. Eric is an Associate Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College. Before coming to CUNY, he taught at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dr Angela Martin (2020)

Dr. Angela Martin works in applied ethics and political philosophy and she specialises in animal ethics and medical ethics. She holds a PhD in philosophy from Geneva University (Switzerland) and she was a postdoctoral researcher in Münster (Germany), Montreal (Canada) and Fribourg (Switzerland). Angela is currently based at Basel University (Switzerland) with a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In her current project, she is investigating whether moral agents have positive duties towards animals, what we should do if the interests of humans and animals clash, and how we can represent the interests of animals on a political level. She has also worked on ethical issues to do with the beginning and end of life, as well as on human and animal vulnerability and their ethical implications. 

Dr Ignacio Mastroleo

Dr Ignacio Mastroleo works on human health research ethics and theories of justice. His main lines of inquiry are post-trial responsibilities in human health research and responsible use of innovative care in medical practice (see ORCID and Google scholar profiles). Dr Mastroleo has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He was a member of the research ethics committee in the Oncology Institute Angel Roffo of UBA (2012-2015). He is Assistant Researcher from National Scientific Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). Since 2018, he is the Director of the BioThera Research Institute for Philosophy of Translational Medicine. He is Chief of Lecturers in Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, UBA. He won The Manuel Velasco Suarez Award for Excellence in Bioethics (2014), one of the six Awards for Excellence in Inter-American Public Health awarded by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO). He has been visiting researcher at the Ethox Centre (2014) and the HeLEX Centre (2016), Oxford University, UK. He is also a member of the Post-Trial Responsibility Workgroup of MRCT (Multi-Regional Clinical Trials) Center of Harvard and Brigham and Women's Hospital, United States (2015-to date). Since 2018, he is the co-director of the Bioethics Module of the IMBS Master.

Allan McCay

Allan McCay teaches at the University of Sydney Foundation Program, and is an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics at Macquarie University. He has taught at the law schools of the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, and the Business School at the University of Sydney. Allan has practiced as a solicitor in Scotland and Hong Kong, and he completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2013. His thesis considered the ethical and legal merits of behavioural genetics based pleas in mitigation in sentencing, and he has recently worked on the Australian Neurolaw Database. He is interested in free will, philosophy of punishment and the criminal law’s response to neuroscience.

Douglas McConnell

Doug McConnell is a post-doctoral research fellow working on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project, ‘Conscience and conscientious objection in healthcare,’ at Charles Sturt University in Australia. His research interests include moral psychology, bioethics, and applied philosophy, particularly in relation to addiction. His recent work, ‘Narrative self-constitution and recovery from addiction’ in American Philosophical Quarterly, investigates the effect of self-conceptual content and structure on self-governance.

Andrew McGee

Andrew is senior lecturer in law at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, and is a member of QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research. He obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Essex in 2001, before taking up a one year postdoctoral fellowship in philosophy at University College Dublin. He then retrained in law in Queensland, being admitted to practice as a lawyer to the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia in 2006. After working as a lawyer for 4 years, Andrew returned to Academia with QUT in 2010. His main research interests are:

•    end-of-life decision making including euthanasia, assisted suicide, and withdrawing life-prolonging measures (LPM), and differences between withholding and withdrawing LPM;

•    conceptual and moral differences between acts and omissions;

•    utilitarian versus deontological approaches to health care;

•    the ethics of embryonic stem cell research and conceptual issues concerning the relationship between embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent cells and somatic cells;

•    the ethics of abortion and infanticide;

•    the ethics of human enhancement, including gene editing and designer babies;

•    organ donation and the definition of death.

Andrew has published widely on many of these issues in international bioethics, philosophy and law journals.

Dr Victoria McGeer

Victoria McGeer is a tenured Senior Research Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and Lecturer in Philosophy at Princeton University.  She is also an Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University. She currently divides her times between these two institutions, spending the (northern) autumn semester in Princeton and the spring semester at the ANU. McGeer received her B.A. in government and philosophy from Dartmouth College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto.  In 1993, as an assistant professor in the philosophy department at Vanderbilt University, she won the Royal Society of Canada’s Alice Wilson Award for postdoctoral research. With support from the Canadian government, she took special research leave to explore how developmental questions affect theoretical work in philosophy of mind and moral psychology, and spent two years at the lab of developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik at the University of California, Berkeley. After leaving Vanderbilt to pursue an interdisciplinary research program on the development of social cognition and its disorders, she became a senior member of the McDonnell Project in Philosophy and the Neurosciences in 2001 and joined the Center for Human Values at Princeton in 2004.

Dr Roderick McRae, Monash Medical Centre

Dr McRae is a practicing consultant anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-Operative Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, with a full range of clinical expertise for all non-neonatal anaesthesia and intensive care management excluding hepatic transplantation.  As well as his medical studies Dr McRae has also completed a Masters of Human Bioethics (Monash University), a Juris Doctor from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Australian National University.  He is a Member of the Melbourne Registry of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and is admitted to the Role of Solicitors of the Australian Capital Territory and Victorian Supreme Courts and the High Court of Australia.  He is a past Chairman of Council of the Federal Australian Medical Association, and was a member of the Australian Medical Council’s Writing Group for Good Medical Practice: A Code of Professional Conduct, 2009, and was a reviewer for Review of the Royal Perth Hospital’s Review of the Report of the Royal Perth Hospital Ethics Committee (April 2006) and Management of Further Complaints conducted in 2007.  Dr McRae is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Monash University Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.  He has been a member of The Alfred’s and Southern Health’s Bioethics Committees, and  a past executive member of the St Francis Xavier Cabrini Private Hospital’s Human Research Ethics Committee.

Emilian Mihailov

Emilian Mihailov is the Executive Director of the Research Centre in Applied Ethics (CCEA), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch. Emilian’s research interests are Kant’s moral philosophy, analytic moral philosophy, applied ethics, evolution of morality, neuroethics, Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Recent publications include Intuitive methods of moral decision making, a philosophical plea, in Valentin Muresan, Shunzo Majima (eds.), "Applied Ethics: Perspectives from Romania", Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University, 2013 and The Normativity of Kant’s Formula of the Law of Nature, "The Romanian Journal of Analytic Philosophy", Vol. VII, No. 2, 2013.

Dr Calum Miller

Calum Miller is an independent researcher whose research interests are in Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Formal Epistemology. He has papers published on the beginning of human life, the ethics of overseas medical electives, arguments for God's existence, academic freedom, probabilistic approaches to natural theology and the place of religion in psychiatric practice. He qualified as a medical doctor from Oxford (2015) before working as a doctor for 2 years and completing an MA in Biblical Studies at Manchester (2015-2017). At the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics his work will focus on the metaphysics of human persons and its relevance for debates in beginning of life ethics, particularly with respect to induced abortion. He will also continue work on evidentialist justifications of religious belief. 

Ole Martin Moen, University of Oslo

Dr Ole Martin Moen is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Philosophy at Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, working on thorny social issues that have traditionally received relatively little attention from philosophers. He has published papers on paedophilia, sex work, cosmetic surgery, and cryonics, and is currently working on the ethics of recreational drug use. Moen holds a BA and an MPhil in intellectual history, and a PhD in philosophy.

Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza

Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza is a Basque Government Posdoctoral Researcher. His research lies at the intersection of the cognitive, biological and social sciences exploring their philosophical underpinnings.During his stay at Oxford-Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics he will conduct research on social cognition (morality as social intelligence) and on the ethics of moral bioenhancement technologies (Artificial Intelligence applied to enhance moral decision making). He is a member of the group Kontuz! “Causal responsibility by omission: An ethical and legal elucidation of the problems of undue inaction” ( http://kontuz.weebly.com/ ) and the following research projects: (FFI2015-67569- C2-2- P) and (FFI2016-79000- P). Anibal graduated in Philosophy (Universidad de Deusto) before completing a MA in Social Psychology, and obtained his PhD in Cognitive Science and Humanities at the Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea with a dissertation on social cognition.

Dr Bryanna Moore

Bryanna’s research interests are in moral philosophy and bioethics, with a particular focus on topics in clinical ethics, virtue ethics and the philosophy of emotion. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours Class I) from the University of Queensland, recently completed a PhD in Philosophy at Monash University, and is about to start a research fellowship at the Bioethics Center at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City.

Jeremy Moss, University of Melbourne

jeremy MossJeremy is Director of the Social Justice Initiative at the University of Melbourne. His main research interests are in political philosophy and moral theory. Current research interests include projects on egalitarian approaches to climate justice and health as well as ethics and energy security. Much of his recent research has been focused on developing an account of why equality is valuable, what it means and its scope in theories of justice. He has also written papers on mutual obligation, responsibility and Amartya Sen’s capability approach to equality. He is the recipient of the Eureka Prize for Ethics, the Australasia Association of Philosophy Media Prize and several Australian Research Council Grants including: ‘Egalitarian Approaches to Climate Justice’, ‘Health, Freedom and Equality’ and ‘Disability, Welfare and Work'. He chairs the UNESCO working group on Climate Ethics and Energy Security.

Dr Cinara Nahra

Cinara Nahra is a senior lecturer at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, UFRN/Brazil) where she has been working for the past twenty three years (since 1995) conducting research on ethics and moral philosophy, supervising masters dissertations and PhD thesis and teaching. She completed her PhD at the University of Essex and in 2010/2011  she was academic visitor at the University of Manchester  (Institute of Science, Ethics and Innovation). She has published some books and numerous articles and chapters of books on ethics. Her main research interests are in normative ethics and applied ethics. At the moment she is especially interested in discussing moral enhancement, altruism, neuroethics, and the dualism of practical reason, besides the moral philosophies of Kant and Mill and the possibility of reconciling deontology and utilitarianism. 

Associate Professor Mao Naka

Mao NAKA is an associate professor of ethics and philosophy in the Graduate School of Letters at Kobe University, Japan. She started her career with Levinas’ philosophy. Recently her study has been centred on “reproduction” from gender and corporeal perspectives. She uses “reproduction” in a broader sense from pregnancy to child-care, including infertility, abortion, stillbirth and adoption. “Motherhood,” reproductive technology, and baby-hatches in theory and practice are some of her more recent interests. Examples of her work include the following: "The Otherness of Reproduction: Passivity and Control" in Nicholas Smith & Jonna Bornemark (ed.), Phenomenology of Pregnancy, Södertörn University Press, 2016;“Some Glimpses at Japanese Feminist Philosophy: In terms of Reproduction and Motherhood,” in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy: A Reader, ed. John W.M.Krummel, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018.

Dr Piotr Grzegorz Nowak (2022)

Piotr Grzegorz Nowak is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is primarily interested in bioethics, especially in the ethics of organ transplantation and in the brain death debate. Piotr has published numerous works about these topics written in English and Polish. He is currently the principal investigator in the research grant “Concepts of death” (https://www.ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2020-09-30apsv2/streszczenia/498408-en.pdf) funded by the National Science Centre (Poland) (https://www.ncn.gov.pl/en/).

Koji Ota

Koji Ota is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities, Niigata University, Japan. He received his Ph.D from Kyoto University with a thesis on consciousness and physicalism. His research interests are philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, moral psychology, and ethical theory. He investigates connections between descriptive issues in moral psychology and normative questions in ethics, particularly concerning ethical intuitionism and moral relativism. He also tries to explore the metaphilosophical significance of the free will debate in the light of psychological nature of free will beliefs.

Norbert Paulo

Norbert is a lecturer in practical philosophy at the University of Salzburg. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Hamburg University, where he studied both philosophy and law. In his forthcoming book ‘The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics’ he employs legal methods to inform the debates on methodology in applied ethics. His research interests include applied ethics, ethical theory, empirical ethics, and legal philosophy.

Pedro J. Perez (January 2016)

Pedro J. Perez is a lecturer in Moral Philosophy at the University of Valencia, Spain. His major research interests are contemporary political philosophy, theory of democracy, deliberative democracy, moral pluralism, moral disagreement, grounds of moral judgement, moral psychology and neuropolitics. Currently, Pedro is working on the conception of morality in evolutionary psychology. While visiting the Uehiro Centre, he will deep on the distinction between Haidt’s concept of groupishness and morality.

Dr Jon Pike

Jon Pike is a Senior Lecturer and Staff Tutor in Philosophy at the Open University, UK.  He holds an MA from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Glasgow.  He has worked in moral and political philosophy for some time, writing course materials for Open University students from level one to MA level. His main research interest is in the philosophy of sport.  He is working on a new theory of sport; Local Essentialism.  This is the claim that the essence of individual sports – the feature that cannot be changed without changing the identity of the sport itself – is the basic action which is developed in response to a particular affordance.   The claim then, is that sports are more given by the lumpiness of human beings in the world than they are constructed by conventions.  The theory has implications for the debate about doping, for the value of sport, for the status and regulation of Paralympic sport, and for the essentialist/conventionalist contrast more generally.  Jon is Vice-Chair of the British Philosophy of Sports Association, and a (largely former) runner and triathlete.

Aurora Plomer, University of Sheffield

Aurora Plomer is Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics.  She has published widely on the intersection between human rights, bioethics and intellectual property rights, particularly in connection with stem cells and emerging technologies in the life-sciences. She is writing a book on the right to access the benefits of science in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: ‘Human Rights, Property Rights and Emerging Biotechnologies for which she has a contract with Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. She is a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Science and Human Rights Coalition, a member of the ESRC Impact Committee on the Stem Cell Initiative, an advisor to the Stem Cell and Society Programme at the University of Stanford and a contributor to the Matrix Chambers EU law blog EUTOPIA law. Her visit to the Uehiro Centre is funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Professor Milton Regan

Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, and Co-Director of the Center on National Security and the Law at Georgetown University Law Center.  He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy. Professor Regan’s research and teaching focuses on ethical issues in the context of national security, business, the military, legal practice, and professional service organizations.  His work draws on multiple disciplines that include organizational and behavioral psychology; the sociology of organizations; neuroscience research on moral perception, deliberation, and judgment; and moral philosophy.  He currently is a senior researcher on a European Research Council Advanced Grant project on Global Terrorism and Collective Moral Responsibility: Redesigning Military, Police and Intelligence Institutions in Liberal Democracies and is principal investigator on Split-Second Ethics: Neuroscience and Rapid Decision-Making in Asymmetrical Conflict, a project funded by the Georgetown University Program on Complex Moral Problems.

David Rodríguez-Arias (September 2016 - March 2017)

David Rodríguez-Arias, PhD is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the University of Granada, Spain. His research is mainly devoted to clinical ethics, organ transplantation ethics, death determination, and global bioethics. He is PI of the project: Research on Ethical Strategies to Increase Organ Donation Rates in Europe (RESPONDE), and is member of the Group “Causal responsibility by omission: An ethical and legal elucidation of the problems of undue inaction” ( http://kontuz.weebly.com/ ) and “Bioethics and citizenship”, funded by  the Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitiveness.

Blanca Rodríguez López

Blanca Rodríguez López is associate professor of moral and political philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. At the beginning of her career she worked on utilitarianism, rational choice theory and Game theory. Later she worked on liberalism and social norms and in the last few years she has focused on bioethics and human enhancement. Her work is currently focused on moral enhancement, and its relation with cognitive and mood enhancement.

Johann Roduit, University of Zurich (2013/14 academic year)

Johann Roduit is a founding member of NeoHumanitas, a think thank fostering discussions about future and emerging technologies, he is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation in “Biomedical Ethics and Law” at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics in the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Johann’s current research aims to look at what role, if any, the notion of perfection should play in the debate about the ethics of human enhancement. As part of the SNFS project Human enhancement and perfection, he has been awarded a Mobility grant to take part in the “Academic Visitor Programme” of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics from October 2013 to April 2014. Johann’s other research interests include bioethics, transhumanism, virtue ethics, the ethics of human cloning, human dignity and philosophical anthropology. He is also the cofounder and curator of TEDxMartigny.

Kira Vrist Rønn (Hilary 2017)

Kira Vrist Rønn, PhD in Philosophy, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Political Science at University of Copenhagen and a lecturer at the Metropolitan University College in Copenhagen. Her primary research interests concern ethics of policing and security ethics. Her current research project deals with the ethics of intelligence. In general, it addresses the overall question: How should intelligence services conduct their activities in order for these activities to be morally justified? The project emphasizes one particular dimension of this question: the proportionality principle. Hence, most often morally justified intelligence activities are articulated as being dependent on a proportionate relationship between the expected relevant harms, intrusions or wrongdoings caused, i.e., in the process of gathering intelligence on one side, and the seriousness of the threat averted (the relevant good effects), on the other side. Thus her project attempts to specify how the proportionality principle of intelligence activities (and the elements hereof) could be specified.

Kira Vrist Rønn (2020)

Kira Vrist Rønn is PhD in Philosophy (University of Copenhagen) and senior lecturer at University College Copenhagen. Her primary research interests concern the ethics of policing, proportionality of surveillance and security ethics in general. She is currently working on a project on the value of public trust in security and intelligence services. Additionally, she is working on a project on privacy in digital “public” spaces and on the ethics of online policing.

Sergi Rosell, University of Sheffield (Hilary 2012)

Sergi Rosell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department, University of Sheffield. He completed his PhD at the University of Valencia, Spain, with a Dissertation on moral luck and its repercussion for moral responsibility and agency. His current research interests are the free will and moral responsibility debate, the role played by the reactive attitudes in blame and punishment, the relation between beliefs and the will, rational control and some experimental challenges upon philosophical questions. Sergi participates in the research projects “Belief, Responsibility, and Action” (U. Valencia) and “PERSP: Applied Philosophy” (U. Barcelona), funded by the Spanish Government, and he is member of Phrónesis Group and Nomos Network.

Sebastian Sattler (March 2016)

Sebastian Sattler (Dr) became a researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology (University of Cologne, Germany) in 2015 following his post-doc fellowship funded by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation (2013-15). He is interested in the assessment and explanation of behavior that is often perceived as or actually is a violation of social and/or legal norms such as human/cognitive enhancement (CE), academic dishonesty, and stigmatization. He recently conducted the longitudinal study “FAIRUSE”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education, in which he investigated the prevalence and predictors of plagiarism, cheating, and CE among university students and teachers. Data obtained from this project were used in his dissertation on approaches to explaining morally questionable behavior (supported by a Bielefeld University Rectorate Fellowship). He currently has an early Career Scholarship of the Enhancing Life Project funded by the Templeton Foundation to investigate pediatric CE. During his one-month research visit (funded by the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation), he wants to work on several aspects of CE together with researchers at the Centre.

Andrea Sauchelli (September - October 2015)

Andrea Sauchelli is an Assistant Professor at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Andrea studied philosophy at the University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Leeds. Before moving to Hong Kong (2009-2011, 2012-present), he also worked in South Korea (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 2011-12).  His areas of current interest include: Personal Identity & Applied Ethics and Aesthetics & Philosophy of Art (in particular, art and ethics).

Ass Prof Tsutomu Sawai

Tsutomu Sawai is an Assistant Professor at the Uehiro Research Division for iPS Cell Ethics of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University. He has a PhD in Human and Environmental Studies from Kyoto University (2016), where his PhD thesis was on the ethics of human induced pluripotent stem cell research. Prior to this he was awarded a year Oxford-Uehiro-St Cross Visiting Student Scholarship. His research interests lie primarily in issues concerning new and emerging technologies in practical ethics, particularly topics pertaining to human-animal chimera research, stem cell-derived gamete research, organoid research, and genome editing research. He published his first book: The Ethics of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research in Japanese, Kyoto University Press 2017, which was awarded the 2016 Kyoto University President’s Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

Richard Schoonhoven (October 2015 - June 2016)

Richard Schoonhoven is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point.  He has been teaching in the Department since receiving his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2000, where he trained as a philosopher of science.  At the time of accepting the job at West Point, he knew nothing about military ethics; he knows only slightly more now, although he has served as the Program Chair for the International Society for Military Ethics for the past five years.

Professor Udo Schüklenk

Udo taught at universities in Germany, Australia, the UK and South Africa before moving to Queen's. He has written/co-edited five books and authored or co-authored some 100+ publications in peer reviewed journals and anthologies. He's a Joint Editor-in-Chief of Bioethics and Developing World Bioethics. Udo's main research interests are in the areas of public health issue and infectious disease control. His most recent journal contributions include papers in the American Journal of Public Health on mandatory HIV testing and the Journal of medical ethics on religious symbols in doctors' rooms.

Anne Schwenkenbecher

Anne is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Arts and Academic Chair of the Philosophy Program at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Before joining Murdoch in June 2013, she held appointments at The University of Melbourne, the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Australian National University, the University of Vienna, and Potsdam University. Her PhD in Philosophy (2009) is from Humboldt University of Berlin. Anne works in moral and political philosophy, but also applied ethics and social ontology on a wide range of topics such as collective action and responsibility, political violence, in particular terrorism, as well as climate change and renewable energies. Her current projects include a book on Collective Moral Obligations (to be completed in 2017). In this book, she develops a novel theory of collective moral obligations: obligations of individual moral agents to act together with others. In doing so, this book fills a non-trivial gap in moral theory. Traditionally, ethics has focused on examining the morality of discrete individuals’ actions, but does not shed much light on situations in which we act or need to act together with others. However, in today’s world individually inconsequential actions can increasingly form part of morally significant collective actions. Our economic, political, private decisions may – taken together with many other similar actions – have substantial impacts on other people’s lives. Instead of just asking “what ought I to do?” we must also answer the question “what ought we to do”?.

Michael Selgelid, University of Melbourne (November 2014)

Professor Michael Selgelid is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Bioethics therein, at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.  He has held previous appointments at The Australian National University (Canberra), University of Sydney, and University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg).  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics, and serves on the Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières.  His main research focus is public health ethics—with emphasis on ethical issues associated with biotechnology and infectious disease. He co-authored Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences (Springer 2008) and co-edited On The Dual Uses of Science and Ethics:  Principles, Practices, and Prospects (ANU E Press 2013); Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Ashgate 2012); Emergency Ethics (Ashgate 2012); Infectious Disease Ethics (Springer 2011); Health Rights (Ashgate 2010); and Ethics and Infectious Disease (Blackwell, 2006).  He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and a book series in Practical Ethics and Public Policy for ANU E Press. He is Co-Editor of Monash Bioethics Review and an Associate Editor of Journal of Medical Ethics.  Michael earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University; and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Philip Kitcher.

Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu (June - September 2015)

Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu got his Ph.D. in Philosophy from  Australian National University. He is currently an assistant professor (full-time) in the Philosophy Department of Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. He works mainly in ethics, currently focusing on issues related to reason, virtue, agency, and principle. In his recent paper in Philosophical Studies, he defended what he calls ‘shapeless moral particularism’, the view that the moral is shapeless with respect to the natural. His research interests recently expanded into the realm of metaphysics, gravitating towards issues concerning free will.

David Simon (Trinity 2015)

David Simon is an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist working in rural Australia and the Pacific and is a lecturer in the Monash University School of Rural Health. He graduated from Monash University in 1983 and originally worked as a remote area GP in the Australian Top End and South Africa. He is a fellow of the RANZCOG and RACGP and has a DTM&H from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a Master of Public Health from Monash University.

Professor Anthony Skelton, University of Western Ontario (November 2012 - June 2013)

Anthony Skelton is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He specializes in the history of ethics, normative ethics and practical ethics. Anthony is currently working on a series of papers on the nature of welfare. His main ambition is to work out a theory of welfare for children and the implications such a view might have for a variety of issues, including the use of children in medical research, children’s rights, and parental duties. Recent publications have appeared in Utilitas, Journal of the History of Philosophy and Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick to Ewing (Oxford, 2011). Forthcoming publications include the textbook Bioethics In Canada (Oxford, 2013) and the article "Utilitarianism, Welfare, Children".

Loane Skene, University of Melbourne (August 2014, July 2013, Michaelmas 2011)

Loane Skene is a Professor at the Melbourne Law School and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. She is a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee and has served on numerous other federal and state advisory committees, especially concerning genetics and the law. In 2005, she was Deputy Chair of the Lockhart Committee on Human Cloning and Embryo Research and was a member of the Heerey Committee which conducted a further review of the federal legislation on cloning and embryo research. Professor Skene has published extensively in the field of health law, has been awarded a Centenary Medal by the Commonwealth for ‘Service to Australian Society through the Exploration of Legal and Ethical Issues of Health Care’, is the Inaugural Life Fellow of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law; and has been appointed as a Fellow of Queen’s College Melbourne and a Plumer Fellow of St Anne’s College Oxford.

Dr Carl Tollef Solberg

Carl Tollef Solberg (BA, MA, MD, PhD) is a senior research fellow at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Bergen. He has worked at several clinical levels of the health care system over the years, and he did his medical residency at Ahus University Hospital (2017¬–2019). Solberg has been a visitor at the Uehiro Centre on several occasions (Trinity 2016, Nov. 2016, Feb. 2017), and he has also been affiliated with the Centre for the Study of Mind and Nature (2015–2017), University of Oslo. His research interests stand at the intersection of medicine and philosophy (you can access much of his research here). Solberg specializes in bioethics and medical ethics and has published work on priority setting in health care, death, and medical ethics. He supervises graduate students in medicine and in philosophy on topics such as the value of longevity, vaccination ethics, antimicrobial resistance, severity in priority setting, and multifetal pregnancy reduction. His main research focuses on the role of the disvalue of death for health measures and prioritization in healthcare. Among other works, Solberg is an editor of the book Saving People from the Harm of Death (OUP, 2019).

Dr Marta Soniewicka, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (August 2014)

Marta is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. In the summer of 2014 she was an academic visitor at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics hosted by Professor Julian Savulescu. Her fields of interest include: jurisprudence, political philosophy, ethics and bioethics, as well as philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche which is the main subject of her second dissertation in philosophy (in progress). In 2011 she was a post-doc Fulbright fellow at Boston University working on bioethics and law under a supervision of Professor George Annas. She was a visiting scholar: at the Cambridge Forum for Legal and Political Philosophy at Cambridge University in the UK (2009) and at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at University of Notre Dame in the US (2011); a visiting lecturer at numerous universities, among others at the University of Vienna and a University of Ternopil. She is the author of a book on global justice and the co-author of a book on bioethics; she has also co-edited fours books (among others two volumes of the Studies of Philosophy of Law; and one volume of CEE-Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook).

Brunello Stancioli, The Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (May 2011 - March 2012)

Brunello Stancioli (LLD, LLM, LLB) is a Law Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and an academic visitor at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics/Faculty of Philosophy. His PhD thesis, published in Brazil in 2010, is about the renouncement of basic rights and the concept of person. He researches human enhancement, neuroethics, applied ethics and the impact of new technologies on the concepts of person, identity, autonomy and human rights. He is currently investigating human enhancement as a basic right.

Dr Diana Stanciu

Dr Diana Stanciu received her first PhD at the University of Bucharest (2004) and her second one at the KU Leuven (2012). She has been teaching and doing research at the University of Bucharest (1995-2009 and since 2015 onwards), the Central European University (1997-1998), the University of Athens (1999), the University of Cambridge (2000-2001), the University of St. Andrews (2006), the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Humboldt fellowship 2007-2008), the KU Leuven (2009-2014) and the University of Oxford (2014-2015). She was also a fellow of advanced studies institutes such as New Europe College, Bucharest (2001-2002), Collegium Budapest (2003), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh (2006) and The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (2006, 2008-2009). She formerly specialised in the history of philosophy with a focus on topics such as consciousness and conscience, grace, predestination and free will, virtue, sovereignty, rational religion and toleration. Since 2014 she has shifted to epistemology, cognitive science and practical ethics while concentrating on conscious agency, free will and moral decision-making at the interface of philosophy and neuroscience. Since April 2016 she has been the convenor of an interdisciplinary research seminar and a series of lectures on Consciousness in Philosophy and Neuroscience at the research institute of the University of Bucharest (https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/new-seminar-consciousness-in-...). Dr Diana Stanciu is the author of several monographs and edited volumes (published by Peeters, Brill, De Gruyter, Peter Lang and Bucharest University Press) and of numerous articles on the above-mentioned topics that were published in internationally peer-reviewed journals such as Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique, European Review of History, Studia Patristica, etc. and in collective volumes issued by Springer, Mohr Siebeck, Oxford University Press, Brill, Garnier, LIT Verlag, Aschendorff, Peeters, etc.
Dr Diana Stanciu received her first PhD at the University of Bucharest (2004) and her second one at the KU Leuven (2012). She has been teaching and doing research at the University of Bucharest (1995-2009 and since 2015 onwards), the Central European University (1997-1998), the University of Athens (1999), the University of Cambridge (2000-2001), the University of St. Andrews (2006), the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Humboldt fellowship 2007-2008), the KU Leuven (2009-2014) and the University of Oxford (2014-2015). She was also a fellow of advanced studies institutes such as New Europe College, Bucharest (2001-2002), Collegium Budapest (2003), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh (2006) and The Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (2006, 2008-2009). She formerly specialised in the history of philosophy with a focus on topics such as consciousness and conscience, grace, predestination and free will, virtue, sovereignty, rational religion and toleration. Since 2014 she has shifted to epistemology, cognitive science and practical ethics while concentrating on conscious agency, free will and moral decision-making at the interface of philosophy and neuroscience. Since April 2016 she has been the convenor of an interdisciplinary research seminar and a series of lectures on Consciousness in Philosophy and Neuroscience at the research institute of the University of Bucharest (https://irhunibuc.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/new-seminar-consciousness-in-...). Dr Diana Stanciu is the author of several monographs and edited volumes (published by Peeters, Brill, De Gruyter, Peter Lang and Bucharest University Press) and of numerous articles on the above-mentioned topics that were published in internationally peer-reviewed journals such as Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique, European Review of History, Studia Patristica, etc. and in collective volumes issued by Springer, Mohr Siebeck, Oxford University Press, Brill, Garnier, LIT Verlag, Aschendorff, Peeters, etc.

Xavier Symons (May 2017)

Xavier Symons is a Research Associate with the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He is also a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. In his part time Xavier edits and contributes to the bioethics newsservice www.bioedge.org. He has also written on bioethical topics for The Guardian, The Conversation, The Age, and ABC Religion and Ethics. Xavier’s broad research interests include:

• The ethics of end of life care

• Reproductive ethics and law

• Action theory, double-effect, and the act-omission distinction

• Religion and bioethics

• The liberal-communitarian debate

• Scepticism

Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Hertfordshire

Mariarosaria Taddeo's primary research interests are Information and Computer Ethics, Ethics of Conflicts and Philosophy of Information. She holds a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Hertfordshire, where she is working on Informational Conflicts and their ethical implications. She obtained a European PhD in Philosophy at the University of Padua. Her PhD thesis concerned the epistemic and ethical implications of the occurrences of Trust in artificial distributed systems.

Ik Lin Tan, Johns Hopkins University (July - August 2012)

Ik Lin Tan is a neurologist from Sydney, with an interest in cognition. She received her M.B.B.S. from the University of Sydney, and Master of Public Health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.  Ik Lin has recently completed a 2.5-year clinical and research fellowship at the Neurology Department, Johns Hopkins University, USA. She takes a keen interest in medical bioethics and has studied at the Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Milene Consenso Tonetto (February 2015-January 2016)

Milene is adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil. She completed her doctorate in philosophy in 2010 writing a thesis on the foundations of human rights. She is the author of the book "Human rights in Kant and Habermas" (2010). In her recent research she investigates the criticisms and the implications of thinking about bioethical issues from a morality based on human rights.

Associate Professor Kelton Tremellen, University of South Australia (May - July 2014)

Kelton Tremellen is a specialist gynaecologist and sub-specialist in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr Tremellen is a Clinical Director at a private IVF clinic in Adelaide, South Australia (Repromed) and is an Associate Professor at the University of South Australia. He has an active research interest in the fields of oxidative stress as a cause of male infertility, immune mediated implantation failure and the effect of nutritional supplements on fertility. Dr Tremellen was the first to introduce AMH as a test of ovarian reserve to Australia in 2004 and is the inventor of the male fertility pill Menevit. He is presently visiting Oxford to work in collaboration with Professor Savulescu on several ethical issues related to reproductive medicine.

Rosana Triviño

Rosana Triviño is an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy of Law, University of Coruña, Spain. She received her PhD from University of Salamanca with a thesis on conscientious objection in healthcare. Her research areas are related to Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. More specifically, she is interested on moral conscience and its role in behaviour choices, conscientious objection, women’s sexual and reproductive rights, and access to healthcare for migrant people. Currently, she is member of two research projects: “Causal responsibility by omission: An ethical and legal elucidation of the problems of undue inaction” ( http://kontuz.weebly.com/ ) and “The discourse of bio-rights. Philosophical and legal foundations, features and implementation”, funded by the Spanish Ministery of Economy and Competitiveness.

Dr Helen Turnham

Helen is an NHS Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. She is dual-trained in both Anaesthesia and Paediatric Critical Care. She has previously worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. Helen has an MA in Medical Ethics and Law from the Centre for Professional Ethics in Keele, for which she was awarded a distinction. Helen is the Clinical Lead for medical ethics in the Paediatric Critical Care unit at the John Radcliffe and she sits on the Oxford University Hospitals Clinical Ethics Advisory Group (CEAG) and the Child Health Ethics & Law Special Interest Group (CHELSIG) of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Helen's focus is on medical ethics and she is particularly interested in decision-making for children, consent for children to undertake medical interventions and the ethics of using innovative and compassionate use therapies for children.

Suzanne Uniake (November 2016)

Suzanne Uniacke is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. She has previously worked in Philosophy departments in a number of universities in the United Kingdom and Australia.  She was chief editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2001-2013.  She has published widely in applied philosophy and on issues of normative moral theory.   Her recent and forthcoming publications include journal articles on proportionality and self-defence, on criminalising unknowing self-defence, and on institutional ethics committees and science, alongside chapters in edited collections, on terrorism, on the ‘last resort’ and the ‘success’ conditions of Just War, and on the value of applied philosophy.

Constantin Vicã

Constantin Vicã, Ph.D., is teaching assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, researcher at the Research Centre in Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest, and postdoctoral fellow at the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch. His main fields of interest are computer and information ethics, roboethics, philosophy of computer science, social and political philosophy, and the critique of intellectual property. He published several articles and studies on online trust, web search engines ethics, digital dialectics, pirate politics, morality of sex acts with robots, evolution of programming languages, green technologies and patents, and free software, authorship and intellectual property; he also co-edited Filosofia științelor umane. In memoriam Mihail Radu Solcan (Philosophy of Human Sciences. In memoriam Mihail Radu Solcan) (2015, University of Bucharest Press). He is now writing on informational justice in the digital world, and also tries to set an argument in favour of artificial companions as a cure for loneliness in senior’s lives.

Alex Voorhoeve (November 2015)

Alex Voorhoeve is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He works on the theory and practice of fair distribution of scarce resources; on decision theory; and on moral psychology. As a member of the World Health Organization’s Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage, he co-authored Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage (2014). A recent paper (written with Marc Fleurbaey) is “Equality or Priority for Possible People?”, Ethics (forthcoming). At the Uehiro Centre, he plans to do some further applied work for the WHO and on fair decision-making under ambiguity.

Dr Malcolm Voyce

Dr Malcolm Voyce is a Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney. His doctorate completed at SOAS was in the area of Buddhist law. He later completed at Macquarie University a second doctorate on Foucault and rural governance. His last two books were Foucault and Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules and Muslim Integration . His current project is on Buddhist approaches to death and organ transplants.

Andrew Watkins (August 2016)

I am a neonatologist, practising in tertiary neonatal intensive care in Melbourne.  I am originally a Liverpool product but have lived much of my life in Australia, returning to Liverpool in the 80's for research training after clinical training in Australia ( MB BS Monash 1978, FRACP 1984). My medical research interests have centred predominantly around brain injury and development in extremely low birthweight infants, cardiorespiratory support in intensive care and infection control. My clinical work has centred on neonatal intensive care, together with perinatal palliative care and antenatal counselling around the issues of  fetal abnormality and the infant with a poor prognosis. This has developed into a major interest in the psychology and ethics of intensive care, support of parents and staff and the psychology of counselling and end of life decision making.  My current focus is an examination of perinatal palliative care counselling and support, with a particular focus on cross-cultural counselling and the impact of religious and cultural belief (clinician and parent/family ) on counselling and decision making. A particular focus is the question of how clinicians and patients use language in communication and in the associated ethical reasoning. I am attempting to explore the use of language as used to both clarify communication and to elide issues, obfuscate or manipulate clinician-patient interactions.

Pablo Aguayo Westwood (University of Chile)

Brunello StancioliPablo Aguayo Westwood is an Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy in the Faculty of Law at the University of Chile. He is in the process of completing his PhD in Ethics and Democracy at the University of Valencia. Pablo is studying “the sense of justice” and its role in Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. He is interested in understanding the reason why Rawls preferred using some ideas of moral psychology rather than moral philosophy and how it affects his theory. Pablo is also interested in moral intuition and its importance towards moral theory.

Areas of specialisation: Moral Philosophy, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science.

Areas of interest: Social Justice, Moral and Political Problem of Equality

Søren Sofus Wichmann (Trinity 2017)

Søren is an industrial Ph.D Student at the University of Roskilde, Denmark and The Danish Council For Ethics. He is a member of the Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics at the Department of Humanities and Communication at Roskilde University. His thesis concerns neuroethics and criminal justice ethics, focusing on the moral implications of novel uses of neurotechnology in the criminal justice system, particularly with regards to privacy and incidental findings. The thesis considers issues such as testing jury members for implicit cognitive biases, neuro-technological mind reading of defendants and enhancement of eyewitness memory. Søren holds an MA in Journalism and Philosophy from Roskilde University, and worked, among many other things, as a newspaper journalist before starting on his Ph.D.  ssofusw@ruc.dk

Stuart Youngner (November 2016)

Stuart J. Youngner received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University where he is Professor of Bioethics and Psychiatry. He did a residency in Psychiatry at University Hospitals of Cleveland. He is Past President of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors.  He recently stepped down, after 15 years of service, as Chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Youngner has published and spoken on topics including: decisions to limit life-sustaining treatment, ethics committees, physician-assisted suicide, advance directives, definitions of death, and ethical issues in organ and tissue retrieval and transplantation. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. He is the editor or coeditor of nine books, the latest of which is (co-edited with Dr. Robert Arnold) the Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life, published in September 2016.