Short presentation

Sebastian Porsdam Mann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law at the University of Copenhagen. His background is in philosophy, neuroscience, applied ethics (BA, PhD, University of Cambridge) and international human rights law (DPhil pending, University of Oxford). He has held postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School and the Universities of Oxford and Copenhagen, the latter supported by a personal grant by the Carlsberg Foundation. His work focuses on the practical potential and regulatory conditions necessary for novel technologies to facilitate scientific progress and normative goals, with a focus on blockchain, generative artificial intelligence, and the human right to science. He is co-author/editor, recently, of The Right to Science: Then and Now (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Scientific Freedom: The Heart of the Right to Science (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). His work on fine-tuning large language models on personal academic output ('AUTOGEN: A personalized large language model for academic enhancement—Ethics and proof of principle') is currently the most read article in AJOB, the nr. 1 bioethics journal.