Abel Wajnerman Paz

Abel Wajnerman Paz is a professor of neuroethics at the Institute of Applied Ethics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), Basal Center FB210017 funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).

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Abel Wajnerman Paz is a professor of neuroethics at the Institute of Applied Ethics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), Basal Center FB210017 funded by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).

He obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (2014), was a postdoctoral researcher in Argentina with CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina) and in Chile at FONDECYT (National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development) from 2015 to 2017 and 2018 to 2021, respectively, and is the principal investigator of the FONDECYT project “Exploring the Conceptual Foundations of Neurorights” (2022–2025).

His main areas of expertise are the philosophy of neuroscience and neuroethics. His research has focused on the relationship between cognitive phenomena and neural mechanisms and how it can illuminate our understanding of fundamental ethical concepts such as personal identity, cognitive liberty, mental privacy, mental integrity and autonomy. He has provided advice on these issues to different governmental institutions in Chile, Argentina and the European Union and participated in various projects by international organizations aimed at shaping neurotechnology regulation.