Fellows of the IEET
The Fellows of the Institute represent diverse constituencies and political orientations. But they have this in common: a determination to ensure that developments in biotechnology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence improve the common good and sustain, and do not subvert, democratic values of liberty, equality and social solidarity.
Athena Andreadis is a fellow of the IEET, Associate Professor of Cell Biology in the Shriver Center for Mental Retardation at University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the author of To Seek Out New Life: The Biology of Star Trek.
William Sims Bainbridge is an IEET Senior fellow, and a prolific and influential sociologist of religion, science and popular culture. Dr. Bainbridge serves as co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the NSF.
Russell Blackford is a fellow of the IEET, an attorney, science fiction author and critic, philosopher, and public intellectual. Russell lives in Melbourne, Australia where he teaches in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University.
Marshall Brain is a fellow of the IEET, and the author of The Day You Discard Your Body, Manna and the founder of HowStuffWorks.com.
Riccardo Campa is a fellow of the IEET, and an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Cracow. He is the author of Epistemological Dimensions of Robert Merton’s Sociology and Il filosofo è nudo, and the founder and president of the Italian Transhumanist Association.
Jamais Cascio is a fellow of the IEET, and a professional futurist. He writes the popular blog Open the Future.
Milan M. Ćirković is a fellow of the IEET, Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia, and Senior Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Aubrey de Greyis a fellow of the IEET, a biogerontologist, creator of the Methuselah Mouse prize, and Chairman and Chief Science Officer of the Methuselah Foundation.
Linda MacDonald Glenn is fellow of the IEET, and a bioethicist, healthcare educator, lecturer, consultant and attorney. Linda also serves as a Scholar of the Women’s Bioethics Project.
Ben Goertzel is a fellow of the IEET, and founder and CEO of two computer science firms Novamente and Biomind, and of the non-profit Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (agiri.org).
Andy Miah is the Visions of Utopia and Dystopia fellow of the IEET, and Reader in New Media & Bioethics at the University of the West of Scotland, UK. His books include Genetically Modified Athletes (2004), The Medicalization of Cyberspace (2008) and Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (2008).
Ramez Naam is a fellow of the IEET, author of More than Human, and a senior technologist at Microsoft.
An Ravelingien is a fellow of the IEET, and an assistant researcher in bioethics at the Department of Philosophy, Ghent University.
Douglas Rushkoff is a fellow of the IEET, author of a dozen books and comic books, producer of two award-winning Frontline documentaries, and his essays have been published widely.
Susan Schneider is a fellow of the IEET, Assistant professor for the Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the Institutes for Research in Cognitive Science and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She is author of Science Fiction and Philosophy.
Wrye Sententia is a fellow of the IEET, and director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (CCLE), a nonprofit research, policy, and public education center working to advance and protect freedom of thought into the 21st century.
Mike Treder is a fellow of the IEET, and the Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, an organization working to raise awareness of the issues presented by advanced nanotechnology. |









