Ullica Segerstrale, Ph.D.

Research:

Scientific creativity, social impact of emerging technologies, human enhancement

Major Accomplishments:

Ullica Segerstrale is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions. Segerstrale has written and lectured widely on science and social values, the ethics of research, the social impact of emerging technologies, and the debates about what it means to be human. She is currently completing Nature’s Oracle, an intellectual biography of the evolutionist Bill Hamilton (“the Darwin of the 20^th century”) to be published by Oxford University Press.

Segerstrale holds a PhD in sociology from Harvard, a MA in communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and a MS in organic and biochemistry from the University of Helsinki. She has held the position of Senior Researcher at the National Academy of Finland, Fulbright Fellow, Fellow of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) in Bielefeld, Germany, and Visiting Professor of the interdisciplinary Collegium Helveticum at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Her research has been supported by among others the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Sloan Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation (Bellagio residency). She is an elected member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters.