Rob Sparrow is a Professor in the Philosophy Program, a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, and an adjunct Professor in the Monash Bioethics Centre, at Monash University where he works on ethical issues raised by new technologies.
He has been an ARC Future Fellow, a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Visiting Fellow at Koto University, a Visiting Fellow in the CUHK Centre for Bioethics, in the Faculty of Medicine, at the Chinese Univirsity of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Fellow at the centre for Biomedical Ethics, in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
He has published widely, in both academic journals and the popular press, on the ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, human cloning, artificial gametogenesis, and enhancement.
{September 2018}