José Manuel Muñoz Ortega

Title: 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Affiliation: 
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
Background: 

José Muñoz is a philosopher and biologist interested in the ethical implications of neurotechnology. He was a research fellow in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a research fellow in neuroethics at the University of Navarra and the International Center for Neuroscience and Ethics (CINET) in Spain. He was also an assistant professor of psychology at the European University of Valencia, in Spain, and a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Criminal Sciences (INACIPE) in Mexico. His project at the Kavli Center is intended to anticipate and address the most practical, immediate challenges that a widespread societal access to brain enhancements could bring to human rights and interests. You can follow him in Twitter at @jmmunoz_