Previous Postdoctoral Research Associates

Past Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values


  1. Joseph Mazor (2009 – 2010)
    Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values

    Laura Valentini (2009 – 2010)
    Postdoctoral Research Associate in Democracy and Human Values

    Past Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associates in Bioethics


    Bennett Foddy (2007 – 2010)
    Oxford University, Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics

    Bennett Foddy was the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics at the Center for Human Values from 2007-2010. He is the author of numerous articles, including “Can Addicted People Consent to the Prescription of their Drug?” in Bioethics and “The Ethics of Genetic Testing in Sport” in International SportsMed Journal. He has written a chapter on “Performance Enhancement and the Spirit of Sport” for the forthcoming Gillon’s Principles of Healthcare Ethics. He received his D.Phil. in bioethics from the University of Melbourne in 2007.

    Nir Eyal (2004 – 2006)
    Harvard University, Program in Ethics and Health

    Dr. Eyal was the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Human Values from 2004-2006. He is currently instructor in Social Medicine (Division of Medical Ethics) at the Harvard Medical School, with a primary appointment at the university-wide Program in Ethics and Health. He received his D.Phil. in politics at Oxford University, his M.A. in philosophy from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and his B.A. in philosophy and history from Tel-Aviv University. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Clinical Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health. His earlier background is in ethics and political philosophy.

    S. Matthew Liao (2003 – 2004)
    University of Oxford, The Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences

    Dr. Liao was the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Human Values in the academic year 2003-04. He is currently an associate professor in the Center for Bioethics at New York University with affiliation in the Department of Philosophy. He obtained his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University and graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Princeton University. He is interested in a wide range of philosophical issues in ethics, bioethics, metaphysics, and moral psychology, and has published in journals such as The Monist, Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, Journal of Medical Ethics, American Journal of Bioethics, and Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Prior to joining the NYU faculty, he was a Greenwall Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University from 2004-2006, and the Deputy Director and James Martin Senior Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University from 2006-2009.