movement birth_place birth_date image article_title name occupation alma_mater
transhumanism solna , sweden 11 july 1972 anders sandberg -lrb- cropped -rrb- . jpg anders sandberg
 anders sandberg researcher author , science debater , futurist , transhumanist and stockholm university
anders sandberg

anders sandberg -lrb- born 11 july 1972 , in solna , sweden -rrb- is a researcher , science debater , futurist , transhumanist and author .
he holds a ph.d. in computational neuroscience from stockholm university , and is currently a james martin research fellow at the future of humanity institute at oxford university .
sandberg 's research centres on societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology , as well as on assessing the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies .
his recent contributions include work on cognitive enhancement -lrb- methods , impacts , and policy analysis -rrb- ; a technical roadmap on whole brain emulation ; on neuroethics ; and on global catastrophic risks , particularly on the question of how to take into account the subjective uncertainty in risk estimates of low-likelihood , high-consequence risk .
he is well known as a commentator and participant in the public debate about human enhancement internationally , as well as for his academic publications in neuroscience , ethics , and future studies .
he is co-founder of and writer for the think tank eudoxa , and is a co-founder of the orion 's arm collaborative worldbuilding project .
between 1996 and 2000 he was chairman of the swedish transhumanist association .
he was also the scientific producer for the neuroscience exhibition `` se hjärnan ! ''
-lrb- `` behold the brain ! '' -rrb-
, organized by swedish travelling exhibitions , the swedish research council and the knowledge foundation , that toured sweden in 2005 -- 2006 .
in 2007 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the uehiro centre for practical ethics at oxford university , working on the eu-funded enhance project on the ethics of human enhancement .
sandberg is also an accomplished and inventive electronic artist , whose renderings have been adapted to a number of covers for books by fellow futurist damien broderick : `` the dreaming '' , `` earth is but a star '' , `` the judas mandala '' , `` skiffy and mimesis '' , `` uncle bones '' , `` warriors of the tao '' , and `` xyzt '' .
one of his papers , entitled `` ethics of brain emulations '' , became one of the most downloaded papers in the journal of experimental and theoretical artificial intelligence .
