Author: Marcello Ienca
7 July 2021/
By Gianclaudio Malgieri and Marcello Ienca
Dr. Marcello Ienca is a Senior Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and a founding member of the Neurorights Network. His research focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, with particular focus on big data trends in neuroscience and biomedicine. Ienca has received many awards for social responsibility in science and technology and he is serving as appointed member or expert advisor in a number of national and international governance bodies including the Steering Group on Neurotechnology of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD) and the Council of Europe’s Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Committee on Bioethics. He is the author of over 70 scientific articles (including journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Medicine, Neuron etc.). Ienca has coedited three edited volumes (most recent: "Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia Clinical, Ethical, Social, and Regulatory Implications", Oxford University Press) and he is the author of the monograph "Intelligenza^2 per un'unione di intelligenza naturale e artificiale" (ENG translation out in Autumn 2021).