
Our Team
We are a multidisciplinary group of scholars working on the identification, articulation, and examination of the ethical, philosophical, legal and social issues raised by neuroscience and its applications.
Dr. Abel Wajnerman Paz
Abel Wajnerman Paz is a professor at the Instituto de Éticas Aplicadas of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He earned his PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2015), and was a CONICET postdoctoral fellow (2015–2017) and FONDECYT (2018–2021).
His main areas of interest are the philosophy of cognitive neuroscience and neuroethics. His work focuses on epistemic and conceptual issues related to neural coding, computation, and information processing, their relationship to mental capacities (specifically perception, thought, and consciousness), and their neuroethical implications for mental privacy, personal identity, and autonomy.
His current research project, ANID 11220327 Exploring the Conceptual Foundations of Neurorights (2022–2025), aims to philosophically elucidate some of the key notions underlying the Chilean framework for the regulation of neurotechnologies.
Dr. Nicolás Serrano
Nicolas Serrano, Ph.D, Universidad de Buenos Aires, held a CONICET [pstdoctoral fellowship (2020-2023). He was affiliated with the Chair of Metaphysics (2012–2016) at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, and has taught Metaphysics, Special Topics in Metaphysics, and Introduction to Scientific Thinking (UBA and UBAXXI) at the same university.
In the field of neuroethics, his interests focus on theories of personal identity.
Jorge Ignacio Fuentes
Jorge Ignacio Fuentes es profesor en el Centro de Bioética UC de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Es profesor de física y matemáticas (Universidad de Chile 2014), magíster en filosofía de las ciencias (Universidad de Santiago 2017) y doctor en filosofía (Universidad Alberto Hurtado 2024). Sus áreas de investigación incluyen la neuroética, la filosofía de la neurociencia cognitiva y la filosofía de las ciencias. Actualmente, es investigador responsable del proyecto FONDECYT 11250331 (ANID-Chile) titulado "A Conceptual Neuroethics Approach To The Interaction Between Neural Computation And Artificial Computation: Implications For Personal Identity And Agency."
Dr. Salvador Guinjoan
Salvador M. Guinjoan es Médico y Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Área Salud Mental) y Especialista en Psiquiatria (American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology). Actualmente se desempeña como Investigador Principal en el Laureate Institute for Brain Research (https://www.laureateinstitute.org/salvador-guinjoan.html), y es Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry de Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center en Tulsa, Oklahoma. Asimismo, es miembro del Comité Nacional de Ética en la Ciencia y la Tecnología (CECTE - https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ciencia/cecte/institucional/miembros). Su trabajo científico está orientado a encontrar mecanismos cerebrales de síntomas en Depresión Mayor y Trastornos de la Ansiedad, en particular el Pensamiento Repetitivo Negativo. Emplea técnicas de imagen estructural y funcional, y tiene experiencia clínica con distintos métodos de neuromodulación. Hasta 2020 se desempeñó como Jefe de Psiquiatria de la Fundación Fleni, en Buenos Aires. En el área de la neuroética, está particularmente interesado en las barreras al acceso de pacientes psiquiátricos vulnerables a tratamientos neuromodulatorios, incluyendo terapia electroconvulsiva y distintas formas de psicocirugía, que resultan de motivos ideológicos, históricos, institucionales y políticos.
Dr. Arleen Salles
Director
Arleen Salles, MA, PhD. Chief Research Officer Senior Researcher and founding Board member of Institute of Neuroethics (IoNx), Senior Researcher in the Human Brain Project (2014-2023), Deputy Leader of the Responsible Research and Innovation workpackage and Leader of Neuroethics and Engagement Task (2020-2023) in the HBP, Senior Researcher Center for Research Ethics and Bioethics (Uppsala University) until 2023. Executive Board member of the International Neuroethics Society, member of the International Brain Initiative (2016-2023), and the Global Neuroethics Summit (GNS).
Salles’ scholarship focuses on a- the ethical, social, and epistemological issues related to neuroscientific findings and its diverse applications, b- disciplinary issues such as the nature of neuroethics and its potential for collaborating with other disciplines, and c- methodological issues regarding how to integrate ethical and societal considerations into brain research and emerging technologies. In particular, she is interested in responsible innovation, engagement, and the development of a culturally engaged neuroethics
Lic. Paula Castelli
Paula Castelli es licenciada en filosofía por la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es profesora adjunta regular de Filosofía y de Bioética en la Universidad Argentina de la Empresa y profesora invitada en la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Ha trabajado sobre temas de historia de la ética y su relación con las emociones, en particular en el período de la modernidad temprana. En el ámbito de la neuroética se interesa por la forma en que conceptos que han sido olvidados en la historiografía canónica pueden ser de utilidad para pensar cuestiones éticas que hoy plantean las neurociencias.
Dr. Victoria Peterson
Victoria Peterson, Ph.D. is a CONICET Researcher (Adjunct) at the Instituto de Matemática Aplicada del Litoral (IMAL, UNL–CONICET), and an Associate Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She obtained her degree in Bioengineering in 2013 from the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos and her PhD in Engineering in 2018 from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
She was a CONICET postdoctoral fellow at IMAL and later a research fellow at Harvard Medical School at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. She also completed doctoral research stays at ETH Zurich in Switzerland in 2017 and 2018.
She currently leads the Applied Computational Neuroengineering group (NiCALab), whose main goal is to develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to improve neurotechnologies. She is a member of the Academia Joven de Investigadores de Argentina (AJA). In 2021, one of her projects was selected among the top 12 worldwide to receive the BCI Award. In 2024, she received the Encouragement Award from the Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (Argentina) for her work in neurotechnology.
Her interests also include the responsible use of data in relation to gender and algorithmic justice, as well as neuroethics.








