anders sandberg born 11 july 1972 in solna sweden is a researcher science debater futurist transhumanist and author he holds a phd in computational neuroscience from stockholm university and is currently a james martin research fellow at the future of humanity institute at oxford universitysandbergs 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 methods impacts and policy analysis 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 lowlikelihood highconsequence riskhe 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 studieshe is cofounder of and writer for the think tank eudoxa and is a cofounder of the orions 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 hjrnan behold the brain organized by swedish travelling exhibitions the swedish research council and the knowledge foundation that toured sweden in 20052006 in 2007 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the uehiro centre for practical ethics at oxford university working on the eufunded enhance project on the ethics of human enhancementsandberg 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 xyztone of his papers entitled ethics of brain emulations became one of the most downloaded papers in the journal of experimental and theoretical artificial intelligence