Senior Fellows

William Sims Bainbridge
William Sims Bainbridge
William Sims Bainbridge Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow of the IEET. Dr. Bainbridge is a prolific and influential sociologist of religion, science and popular culture, and serves as co-director of Human-Centered Computing at the NSF.
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio
Jamais Cascio is a Senior Fellow of the IEET. Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009. His work focuses on the importance of long-term, systemic thinking, emphasizing the power of openness, transparency, and flexibility as catalysts for building a more resilient society.

Fellows

Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford PhD LLB, an attorney, science fiction author and critic, philosopher, and public intellectual and holds the position of editor-in-chief of the IEET’s Journal of Evolution and Technology.
Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain is the author of The Day You Discard Your Body, Manna, and the founder of HowStuffWorks.com. Before founding HowStuffWorks,Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company.
David Brin
David Brin
David Brin, a scientist and best-selling author whose future-oriented novels include Earth, The Postman, and Hugo Award winners Startide Rising and The Uplift War, is a 2010 Fellow of the IEET.
Riccardo Campa
Riccardo Campa
Riccardo Campa is Extraordinary Professor of Sociology and Director of the History of Ideas Research Centre at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan, Ph.D., is the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City.
Milan M. Cirkovic
Milan M. Cirkovic
Milan Ćirković is Senior Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and Assistant Professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro.
John Danaher
John Danaher
John Danaher is a lecturer in the National University of Ireland Galway Law School. John’s research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of new technologies. He maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, and also writes for the Institute for the IEET.
David Eagleman
David Eagleman
Dr. David Eagleman holds joint appointments in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. His research areas include time perception, vision, synesthesia, and the intersection of neuroscience with the legal system.
Daniel Faggella
Daniel Faggella
Daniel Faggella is an internationally recognized speaker on the use-cases and ROI of artificial intelligence in business. He is the Founder and Head of Research at Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research
Linda MacDonald Glenn
Linda MacDonald Glenn
Linda MacDonald Glenn is an attorney-at-law, bioethicist, educator and consultant. Her academic research encompasses the legal, ethical, and social impact of exponential technologies and “evolving notions of personhood”.
Kevin LaGrandeur
Kevin LaGrandeur
Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur is Professor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT). He specializes in Sociocybernetics, Technology and Ethics, and Literature and Systems Theory. His publications have appeared in professional venues and the popular press, and include the books Artificial Slaves and Surviving the Machine Age, with James Hughes.
Ana Lita
Ana Lita
Ana Lita, Ph.D, is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Global Bioethics Initiative (GBI), an international not-for-profit organization incorporated in the State of New York in July 2011, and the former director of the Appignani Bioethics Center.
Luca Lo Sapio
Luca Lo Sapio
Luca Lo Sapio is Assistant Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Turin. In his work, he explores the profound implications of emerging technologies on the evolution of humanity, with a particular focus on human enhancement technologies and innovations within the agri-food sector.
Glenn McGee
Glenn McGee
Glenn McGee is Professor of Public Management in the College of Business at the University of New Haven. His work focuses on the relationship between society, technology, and human flourishing.
Andy Miah
Andy Miah
Andy Miah, Ph.D., is Chair in Science Communication & Digital Media, in the School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, Manchester. He is also Global Director for the Centre for Policy and Emerging Technologies, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam
Ramez Naam is the author of More than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, which offers a tour of emerging technologies and makes a case for embracing human enhancement.
David Pearce
David Pearce
David Pearce is a British utilitarian philosopher and transhumanist, who promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life.
Martine Rothblatt
Martine Rothblatt
Martine Rothblatt, an IEET Fellow, is responsible for launching several satellite communications companies including the first nationwide vehicle location system, the first private international spacecom project, the first global satellite radio network,
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus.
Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider
Susan Schneider is William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professor at Florida Atlantic University and is also the NASA-Baruch Blumberg Chair at the Library of Congress and NASA.
Stefan Sorgner
Stefan Sorgner
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is Chair of the Department of History at John Cabot University in Rome, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth, Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche, Transhumanismus, Schöner neuer Mensch, Übermensch, On Transhumanism, and We have always been cyborgs.
Ilia Stambler
Ilia Stambler
Ilia Stambler, is Chief Science Officer of “Vetek” Association — The Senior Citizens Movement (Israel).His research has focused on the historical and social implications of aging and life extension research.
Natasha Vita-More
Natasha Vita-More
Natasha Vita-More, PhD is an IEET Fellow, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Center for Future Mind, Founder of Transhumanist Studies Program, and Executive Director of Humanity+.
Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach
Wendell Wallach is a consultant, ethicist, and scholar at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. He chairs the Center’s working research group on Technology and Ethics and is a member of other research groups on Animal Ethics, End of Life Issues, Neuroethics, and PTSD.
Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Yampolskiy
Roman Vladimirovich Yampolskiy is a Russian computer scientist at the University of Louisville, known for his work on behavioral biometrics, security of cyberworlds, and artificial intelligence safety.