Layne Hartsell Ethics of S&T
Faculty

Layne Hartsell, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.

AUSN Professor of Ethics of Science and Technology

Visiting Professor, Center for Ethics of Science and Society, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

 

 

Selected AUSN Video Lectures

Global Justice, Technology, and Societal Innovation in the Anthropocene: Asia and the Nordics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF_oeFnpnHk

Education

B.Sc. in Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1989)

M.Sc. in Biology and Biomedicine, Virginia State University (1993)

M.A. Developmental Psychology, Regis University, Colorado (2000)

Ph.D. in Bioethics, Sustainability and Public Health, AUSN (2021)

Awards and Honors

Selected publications

Hartsell, M.L. and S. Hongladarom. Upcoming 2020. The Velocity of Trust. Repository of Reflections in Science and Philosophy.

Hartsell, M.L. and S. Hongladarom. 2020. Bits to Atoms: An Emerging Economy through the Reification of Trust with the Internet of Verification. (potential J. Nanoethics)

Hartsell, M.L., L. Edvinsson, J.U. Neilsen, and S. Hongladarom. 2019. The Anthropocene, P2P Systems, and Society, Repository of Reflections in Science and Philosophy.

Hartsell, M.L. 2017. The Internet of Thinking Together, matters of fact and matters of concern: post-truth. Global Digest, Oslo.

Hartsell, M.L. and E. Pastreich. 2013. Peer-to-Peer Science: The Century Long Project to Respond to Fukushima. Foreign Policy in Focus, September 3.

Hartsell, M.L. 2012. A Review of Nanotechnology and Global Equality. Journal of Nanoethics, September.

Hartsell, M.L., J. Weckert and T. Pogge. 2012. Nanoscience, Ethics and Progress: The Poor and Advanced Technologies. IEEE Proceedings, pp. 1-7.

Academic Appointments

Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand – June 2014 to present – Research Professor (2015-current); Visiting Scholar (2014-2015); Philosophy of technology and ethics; global justice, science, and society; analysis of technical systems. Research and lectures on emerging technological systems; open science. Facilitation of graduate students in science/philosophy writing for thesis development. Previous or current external lectures at Mahidol University, Siriraj Medical Center, Department of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, Bangkok; Vietnam Institute of Culture and Arts Studies, Hanoi; Faculty of Arts, Letters, and Humanities, Pannasastra University, Phnom Penh.

Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea – Feb 2013 to Jan 2014 – Assistant professor, convergence studies. Graduate classes taught in scientific reasoning and writing; undergraduate - global justice, women’s leadership, and science; external lectures on P2P systems and for the model United Nations.

Sungkyunkwan University Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, Suwon, South Korea – Feb 2009 – Feb 2013 - Multidisciplinary work with physicist Atul Kulkarni’s Lab and Kim Sang Woo, teaching biological concepts to physicists; research on piezotronics/biomedical science. Assistant professor (lectures in life sciences and at the language institute); global justice and technology – uses of nanotechnology; access to technology.

The Asia Institute, Tokyo/Hanoi – Feb 2013 to present - Fellow in convergence and 3E (energy, economy, environment) – research on infrastructure and technological systems; New Silk Road in China; Co-Founder with Emanuel Pastriech of the Fukushima Convergence Group for research on nuclear and renewable energy systems and the public; research on economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.

P2P Foundation, Amsterdam/Chiang Mai – Feb 2013 to 2019 – Fellow in philosophy of ethics and technology – Research on applied P2P technologies in global society. Curating about agroecology, knowledge/education, and microproduction/P2P manufacturing; building centers for digital education/P2P Labs in Mexico, Cameroon, and Thailand.

 

Chonburi Province Department of Education, Chonburi, Thailand – July 2017 to current – Adviser on comprehensive education (Finland’s Model) at the administrative level, and science and technology education for students. Lectures at the Department of Education include: Comprehensive Education in Finland; Education, the Digital Age, and P2P Systems. Developing and teaching the English curriculum for children fromrural families using the digital classroom.