About the Editors - Garðar Árnason, Philipp Kellmeyer, Karola Kreitmair
Garðar Árnason is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He has published extensively in bioethics and neuroethics, in particular on issues around moral status, animal ethics, ethical issues in neuroscience and genetics, and research ethics, in journals such as the American Journal of Bioethics, AJOB Neuroscience, Science and Engineering Ethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Prof. Árnason has edited and co-edited several books, including Ethics and Governance of Human Genetic Databases: European Perspectives for Cambridge University Press. Since 2019, he has been an editorial board member of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. He co-edited a symposium in Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2023) and a topical collection in the journal Neuroethics (2022–2025).
Philipp Kellmeyer is Assistant Professor for Responsible AI and Digital Health at the University of Mannheim, Germany and a neurologist at the University of Freiburg – Medical Center, where he leads the Human-Technology Interaction Lab. He has published widely in bioethics and neuroethics including on the ethics of neurotechnologies, medical AI, social robots for health, and neurorights, in journals such as Nature, Nature Medicine, Science Robotics, JMIR Mental Health, Neuroethics, and Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He has also co-edited the Cambridge Handbook of Responsible Artificial Intelligence and is an associate editor at the journal Neuroethics.
Karola Kreitmair is Associate Professor of Medical History and Bioethics and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, USA. She has published widely on philosophical, clinical ethics, and neuroethical questions in journals such as the American Journal of Bioethics, Bioethics, the Journal of Medical Ethics, Nature Biotechnology, Hastings Center Report, and the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. Her research focuses on digital health technologies, cerebral organoids, clinical ethics, and empathetic AI. From 2016 to 2022, she was a book review editor for the American Journal of Bioethics.