Fellows of the IEET

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. Dr. Blackford serves as editor-in-chief of the IEET’s Journal of Evolution and Technology. Dr. Blackford blogs at Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.

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.

David Brin is a scientist and best-selling author whose future-oriented novels include Earth, The Postman, and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War.

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 Senior 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).

Dr. Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Ana Lita, Ph.D., Founder-Director of the Appignani Bioethics Center, serves as a key representative of the American Humanist Association to the United Nations.

Andy Miah is the Visions of Utopia and Dystopia fellow of the IEET, and Chair in Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the School of Media, Language and Music at the University of the West of Scotland. 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 was a fellow of the IEET, and is 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.

Natasha Vita-More is a fellow of the IEET, a media designer and futurist.