Sebastian Porsdam Mann
Visiting Associate Professor
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Sebastian Porsdam Mann is a postdoctoral researcher at CeBIL, University of Copenhagen. With an academic background in philosophy, neuroscience, and applied ethics (BA, PhD, University of Cambridge) and recently defended doctoral research in international human rights law (DPhil pending, University of Oxford), he brings a rich interdisciplinary perspective to his work. His postdoctoral appointments include positions at Harvard Medical School, the University of Oxford, and the University of Copenhagen (supported by a personal grant from the Carlsberg Foundation).
His research focuses on exploring the practical potential and regulatory conditions necessary for novel technologies—such as blockchain and generative artificial intelligence—to advance scientific progress and uphold normative goals, particularly in relation to the human right to science. Porsdam Mann is co-author/editor 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 scholarly contributions have been featured in prominent journals, including Nature Machine Intelligence, npj Digital Medicine, NEJM AI, PNAS, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Human Rights Quarterly, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, and the American Journal of Bioethics. His work has a field-weighted citation impact score of 5.22 (SciVal, 2021–2025).