Background & Education

In 2017-2018, my research was funded by the Center for Neurotechnology, at the University of Washington (National Science Foundation funded Center), Seattle, WA, USA. I was simultaneously appointed as Visiting Scientist at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Washington and at Neuroethics Canada, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

I completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of neuroethics at the Novel Tech Ethics, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. I was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research with States of Mind: Emerging Issues in Neuroethics, and Therapeutic Hopes and Ethical Concerns: Clinical Research in the Neurosciences.

I obtained my PhD in Philosophy at University of Geneva, Switzerland. I conducted my research at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, Geneva Medical School. My PhD work analyses the notions of neurobiological and genetic determinism, and their impact on free will and responsibility. My research was funded by Frontiers in Genetics (NCCR), Switzerland, and Fondation Yves et Ines Oltramare.

PhD, Philosophy, 2009. University of Geneva, Switzerland

Dissertation: Free Will, Neurobiological Determinism, Responsibility

Dissertation committee: President: Prof Kevin Mulligan

Co-Supervisors: Prof Bernard Baertschi & Prof Alexandre Mauron

Examinators: Prof Samia Hurst, Prof Richard Glauser, Prof Gilles Lafargue