MindTech Lab
About MindTech
Welcome to MindTech, a major interdisciplinary, inter-university research lab advancing knowledge in the field of neurotechnology and its ethical and epistemological impacts. We investigate human cognition and its interaction with cutting-edge technological advancements.
MindTech develops theoretical frameworks for ethically and epistemically responsible advancements in neurotech, as well as neurotechnologies embedding ethical and epistemological norms throughout all research, design, and development stages. The lab is a collaboration between philosophers,neuroscientists, psychologists, and physicists at the University of Glasgow (Centre for Neurotechnology and the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre) and the University of Oxford (KnowledgeLab).
Meet Our Research Team
Our team at MindTech is highly interdisciplinary, comprising world-leading researchers with expertise in neuroscience, psychology, neurotechnology, quantum physics, ethics, and epistemology, addressing fundamental questions about human cognition and technological innovation.
Co-Director of Research (Philosophy)
Adam Carter is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. His research is in epistemology, action theory, and philosophy of technology, with a focus on know-how, epistemic ability, and virtue epistemology.
Co-Director of Research (Neuroscience)
Simon Hanslmayr is Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Neurotechnology at the University of Glasgow. His research is in neurotechnology and the neuroscience of attention and memory processes.
Physics, Quantum Technologies
Daniele Faccio is Professor of Quantum Technologies at the University of Glasgow. His research interests involve imaging and quantum technologies applied to both imaging and sensing
Neuroethics, Epistemology
Emma Gordon is Lecturer in Applied Ethics and Head of Interdisciplinary Collaborations at the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre, University of Glasgow. Her research is in bioethics, neuroethics, virtue epistemology and the epistemology of understanding.
Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
Monika Harvey is Professor of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests fall in the area of cognitive neuroscience, with an emphasis on visual perception and the contribution of the two main cortical visual streams (dorsal and ventral) towards perception and action.
Epistemology, Ethics
Christoph Kelp is Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Cogito Epistemology Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. His research is in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language and philosophy of AI, with a focus on the nature, value, and transmission of epistemic states (knowledge, justification, understanding).
Visual and Cognitive Neuroscience
Lars Muckli is Professor of Visual and Cognitive Neurosciences, and Director of fMRI at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at the University of Glasgow and Co-chair of 7T-Imaging Center of Excellence MRI. His work is in the field of fMRI and multi-modal brain imaging.
Epistemology, Ethics
Mona Simion is Professor of Philosophy and Michael Cohen Fellow of Exeter College at the University of Oxford, where she is Director of KnowledgeLab. Her research is in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of AI, with a focus on knowledge-first and social epistemology.