About me

I am a bioethicist with an interdisciplinary background in biotechnology, ethics and philosophy of medicine.

My expertise lies in the proactive assessment of the ethical and social aspects of emerging technologies through a contextual, bottom-up approach grounded in science.

Originally trained as a biotechnologist, I have worked for over 15 years at the intersection of biotechnologies, ethics and society at the forefront of innovation in a variety of contexts  (higher education, ethics boards and advisory groups, consultancies for private companies) 

I am an appointed member of the Ethics Expert Advisory Group of the World Anti-Doping Agency,  and Vice Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. 

Specialties:

  • Ethics of Emerging Biotechnologies.
  • Ethics of Drug Development and Clinical Trials
  • Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and Prenatal Genetic Screening.
  • Applications of AI to drug development and discovery.
  • Ethics and Law in Medicine and Sport.

My academic pathway has not been linear: a graduate of the Collegio Superiore University of Bologna, I obtained my Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnology in 2006 with an experimental thesis in gene therapy at the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Triest. I completed my first Ph.D. in “Foundations of Life Sciences and Ethics” at the University of Milan in 2010, followed by a second Ph.D. in Philosophy of Medicine at King’s College London in 2013. From 2013 to 2022, I held positions as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Bioethics&Society at King’s College London. In September 2022, I took the decision to resign from King’s College London. From October 2022 to October 2023, I served as a Senior Research Fellow (Solidarity Fellow) at the University of Vienna. Since October 2023, I have a research fellow at the University of Bologna working on the MInistry of Research funded project on “normative kinds“. For the 2023/24 academic year I also hold the position Visiting Professor, Sowerby Project Philosophy of Medicine, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London.

I can be contacted at:

silviaDOTcamporesiATgmailDOTcom

you can find me on instagram as silviacamporesibioetica

A recent version of my CV can be downloaded here.

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The image used as header is “Human eye“. Credit: Kate Whitley. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)