Marcus TL Teo
PhD Candidate
Profile
Marcus is a PhD Candidate supervised by Prof. Julian Savulescu (NUS) and Prof. Roger Crisp (University of Oxford), funded by the NUS Research Scholarship. He holds a BA (Hons) in Philosophy with Highest Distinction from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and a Diploma in Psychology Studies from Temasek Polytechnic. His research interests are broadly in reproductive ethics and neuroethics.
In pursuing his doctoral research, Marcus completed a two-week visiting studentship at the Uehiro Oxford Institute in June 2025. He was also selected to participate in the inaugural Oxford Winter Neuroethics School as a Dana Foundation Scholar (2025-2026). Prior to his doctoral research, Marcus’s interdisciplinary training led him to clinch the Highly Commended Award in the Psychology category in the 2019 Global Undergraduate Awards for his work in reconciling Moral Sentimentalism and Moral Rationalism. He is also a recipient of the 2016/2017 Mdm Wong-Mah Jia Lan Confucian Scholarship for his contributions in Confucian moral psychology.
Before embarking on his postgraduate studies, Marcus was a Management Associate in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He has also completed research stints in the Disaster Analytics for Society Lab in NTU and the NTU Institute of Science & Technology for Humanity.
Marcus is also an active member of the Healthcare Ethics, Law and Professionalism (HeLP) team, where he assists with developing, administrating, and delivering undergraduate medical ethics education across all five years of the medical education pipeline.