Advisory Board

Luisa Damiano (PhD) is full professor of logic and philosophy of science at the IULM University, where she directs the PhD School for Communication Studies and co-directs the research center CRiSiCo. Her main research areas are: Epistemology of Complex Systems; Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences; Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial. Since 2007, she has been working on these topics with scientific teams (Origins of Life Group, University of Rome Three, Rome, Italy; Adaptive Systems Research Group, Developmental Robotics Division, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan). Since 2011, she coordinates the Research Group on the Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA). Among her publications there are many articles, the books Unità in dialogo (Bruno Mondadori, 2009) and Living with robots (with P. Dumouchel, Harvard University Press, 2017, originally published in French by Seuil, 2016, in Korean by HEEDAM, 2019, and in Italian by Raffaello Cortina, 2019; in publication in Chinese by Peking University Press) and several co-edited journal special issues (e.g., Artificial Empathy, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2015; What can Synthetic Biology offer to Artificial Intelligence (and vice versa)?, BioSystems, 2016; Synthetic Biology and Artificial Intelligence: Towards Cross-fertilization, Complex Systems, 2018; Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics, International Journal of Social Robotics, 2023; Autopoiesis: Foundations of Life, Cognition, and Emergence of Self/Other, BioSystems, 2023; Biology in AI. New frontiers in hardware, software and wetware modeling of cognition, Artificial Life, 2023).

Benjamin Lipp is Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He received his doctorate in Science and Technology Studies (STS) from the Technical University of Munich in 2019. Before joining DTU in 2023, he was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University and the University of Hamburg. In his work, he draws on new materialist and post-social theory to study how humans and machines interface, particularly in the domain of digital health. Beyond research, Benjamin has been involved in a number of engagement and teaching initiatives to imagine and co-create responsible interfaces between intelligent machines and healthcare.

Michael Morrison is Senior Researcher in Social Science with the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) and Associate Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford. His work deals with the dynamics of innovation in biological and medical technologies, where has worked on a range of topics including human enhancement, biobanking, and regenerative medicine. Michael’s work investigates how potential clinical applications of new technologies are shaped by scientific, regulatory, economic, and cultural factors using detailed empirical analysis and techniques of qualitative and interpretative social science. Michael obtained his Ma and PhD from the Institute for Science and Society University of Nottingham and has worked in the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) at the University of York and the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter before moving to Oxford in 2012.

Sven Nyholm is Professor of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at LMU Munich. He is also a Principal Investigator in the Munich Center for Machine Learning and an Associate Editor of the journal Science and Engineering Ethics. Nyholm's recent publications include the book This is Technology Ethics, which was published in 2023 by Wiley-Blackwell. His research is about how modern technologies - such as artificial intelligence - force society to rethink and update traditional moral norms as well our human self-conception.