Manuel Guerrero

Manuel Guerrero is a sociologist and bioethicist with extensive experience in human rights. He holds a PhD in Sociology and Postgraduate Diplomas in Medical Ethics and Research Ethics. He is a researcher in CRB´s Neuroethics team and Assistant Professor of Bioethics at the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Faculty of Medicine and Ethics at the Centre for Applied Ethics in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Chile, and part of its Human Rights Chair. He has been a research coordinator, and associated researcher at the Division of Neurogeriatrics (2016-2020) at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet and currently is affiliated to teaching and tutoring of its Division of Occupational Therapy. Since 2016 is H2020 Human Brain Project's (EU FET Flagship) Ethics Rapporteur Programme's lead (SGA1 2016-2018; SGA2 2018-2020; SGA3 2020-2023); co-chair of its Dual Use Working Group and member of its Education Programme Committee. He is responsible for HBP’s Researcher Awareness task as well, from where he is the scientific chair for the online “Interdisciplinary Brain Science: Research, Ethics and Societal Impact” course series. 

From January 2021, together with Prof. Kathinka Evers, he is responsible for the ethical and philosophical component of Neurotwin (Digital twins for model-driven non-invasive electrical brain stimulation). 

Manuel Guerrero’s research activities combine philosophy, social sciences, human rights, bioethics, ethics of science and technology, and neuroethics, focusing on the ethical and social implications of brain research and neurotechnologies, and the promotion of Responsible Research and Innovation. He is currently working building a conceptual model that integrates social praxeology, world-brain relation and neuronal epigenesis to understand the cultural and social imprints on the brain.

E-mail: manuel.guerrero@crb.uu.se
Mobile: +46 76 416 81 56
Twitter: @manuel_guerrero