Alberto Carrara
Director of the Neurobioethics Research Group - UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights at APRA and UER
International Institute of Neurobioethics
Italy
Biography
Alberto Carrara, born in 1980, priest of the Congregation of Pontifical Law of the Legionaries of Christ (2013), Academic and Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAV, 2016), Chemical-biological laboratory technician (1999), Doctor of Medical Biotechnology at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Padua (2004; 2007), Master's degree in Philosophy (Master's degree with specialization in Philosophical Anthropology, 2011), Doctor of Theology (2013). At the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum in Rome he carries out the role of: Coordinator of the GdN, the interdisciplinary research group in Neurobioethics; Professor of Philosophical and Neuroethical Anthropology (Faculty of Philosophy), Professor of the Master in Science and Faith and of the Diploma in Bioethics; Fellowof the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights and Lecturer and Member of the research group of the ISSD, Institute of Higher Studies of Women. In 2015 he was Professor of Neuroethics at the Faculty of Law and since 2017 he has been Professor of Neuroethics at the Faculty of Psychology of the European University of Rome (UER). In addition, he is a lecturer recognized by the MIUR and a member of the Scientific Council of SISPI, the International School of Specialization with the Imaginative Procedure; he is a member of the scientific committee of the BR (Brain Research) non-profit foundation; Member of various ethics committees, including that of BioRep, srl; Member of the Neuroethics Society and SINe, the Italian Society of Neuroethics.
Research Interest
Philosophical anthropology, biotechnology, neuroscience, neuroethics or neurobioethics, bioethics, philosophy of mind, psychiatry and psychology.