A) ACADEMIC PROFILE
• Full professor of Moral Philosophy and Bioethics at the University of Padua (UNIPD)
• Chairman of the Degree of Philosophy at the UNIPD from 2008 to 2016
• Coordinator of the Section “Philosophy” within the FISPPA Department of the UNIPD (from 2017 to present)
• Coordinator of the Research Ethics Committee (CERD), FISPPA Department (from 2020 to present)
• Coordinator of the annual seminar on Moral Philosophy, Ph.D. Program in Philosophy at the UNIPD
• Guest lecturer for many postgraduate courses at national and international universities
• He studied Philosophy and Ethics in Germany at the University of Wuppertal (1986-87) and the University of Munich (in 1993 and 1997, 11 months total), thanks to von Humboldt Stiftung
B) MEMBERSHIPS
• Member of the Italian National Bioethics Committee (CNB) from 2006 to present. In this respect,
he considerably contributed to the draft of several CNB documents
• Member of the CIGA Scientific Board (Centre on Environmental, Ethical, Legal and Social Decisions on
Emerging Technologies – UNIPD) from 2005 to 2012
•Member of the steering committee of the Italian Society of Moral Philosophy (2016-2018; from 2022
to present)
•Member of the Italian Society of Neuroethics and Philosophy of Neurosciences
•Corresponding member of Galilean Academy of Science, Letters and Arts in Padova (since April 15th 2023)
C) EDITORIAL POSITIONS
• Corresponding editor for Italy of the review “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. An International Forum”
(Kluwer) from 1998 to 2002
• Editor of the four-monthly journal “Etica per le professioni. Questioni di etica applicata” (Fondazione Lanza - Edizioni Proget, Padova) from 1999 to 2009
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Review “Annuario di etica” (Vita e Pensiero, Milano), “Anthropologica” (Meudon, Trieste), “Etica per le professioni. Questioni di etica applicata”, “Ars Interpretandi” (Cedam, Padova), “Etica & Politica/Ethics & Politics” (EUT: Edizioni Università di Trieste), “Medicina e Morale. Rivista internazionale di bioetica” (Università Cattolica), “Veritas” (Valparaíso, Chile), “Teoria” (ETS, Pisa)
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Series “Percorsi di etica” (Aracne, Rome) and “Ethica” (Orthotes, Napoli)
•Referee for several publishers and journals
•Referee for several PhD Programs and member of dissertation committees at several universities both in Italy and abroad
D) PROJECT ORGANIZATION
- He received funding for the following research fellowship grants:
• Virtue, Justice, and the Good: Ancient Traditions and Contemporary Re-readings - 2001
• The Idea of Virtue in Augustine - 2003
• Kant's Concept of Action and the Contemporary Action Theory - 2009
• Killing and Letting Die within Biomedical Ethics - 2012
• The Diffusion of Genetic Susceptibility Testing in Healthcare – 2014
• New challenges for applied ethics – 2020
• Clinical Empathy in Gender Medicine: Bioethical and Clinical Limitations – 2025
- Internationalization program with The Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Washington D.C.) (2015-2016)
- Project “Bioetica della genetica” (FIRB): from 2009 to 2011
- He coordinated the research unit of Padua for the following PRIN projects:
• The Right and the Good: A Confrontation between Analytical and Continental Traditions - 2003
• The Good, the Ethos and the Forms of Life - 2004
• Nature, Naturalism and Ethical Universality – 2007
• New challenges for applied ethics. The moral impact of scientific and technological advances – 2017

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