I am a postdoctoral researcher with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society (NEUROSEC) team at the Department of Psychiatry, and with the Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities.

I am working with the BeGOOD team, developing novel tools for bioethics research and engagement with young people in the context of early intervention in mental health. As part of this, I am the academic lead of the Phenutopia Project – a game-based public engagement and research project raising awareness and collecting data on young people’s values and attitudes towards digital phenotyping in schools. With the studies running within the project, we seek to show how digital tools can be used to improve empirical bioethics research methodology, and at the same time inform and engage public stakeholders.

Additional research interests include:

♦ Exercise, training, and sports
♦ Emerging diagnostics and treatments for neurodegenerative disease
♦ The role of identity and relations in dementia care and medical decision-making
♦ Artificial (AI), and Swarm Intelligence (SI)
♦ Frailty and multimorbidity

My background being in the field of analytic philosophy, I have a MA in Philosophy from Umeå University, Sweden. My Magistrate (1 year MA) thesis explored the landscape of moral enhancement as a means for criminal rehabilitation, and my Masters (2 year MA) thesis discussed ethical issues in decision-making processes leading up to deep brain stimulation (DBS) in paediatric populations.

In my PhD thesis, “The Ethics of Mind Maintenance” I analysed ethical trade-offs in the context of emerging technologies aimed at preventing and treating age-related neural decline and disease. The aim was to facilitate our understanding of value trade-offs involved in utilising technologies for neurodegenerative diseases, and to provide a guiding and ethically sound structure for patients and other users of said technologies.