David Lyreskog

I am a postdoctoral researcher with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society (NEUROSEC) team at the Department of Psychiatry, and with the Wellcome Centre for Ethics & Humanities (WEH).

I am currently leading the WEH research line on Rethinking Collective Minds, where we investigate the conceptual and ethical impacts of emerging technologies for collective thinking, sensing, and decision-making.

Since the summer of 2023, I am a Co-Investigator on AI-PROGNOSIS – a Horizon Europe-funded project developing Artificial intelligence-based solution for Parkinson’s disease risk assessment and prognosis.

Between 2019 and 2021 I worked on the Wellcome-funded project BeGOOD Early Intervention Ethics in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, developing novel tools for bioethics research and engagement with young people. In this project, we built a digital game – 'Tracing Tomorrow' – to study the values and preferences of young people in the context of digital phenotyping for mental health in schools.

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My background being in the field of analytic philosophy, I have a MA in Philosophy from Umeå University, Sweden. My Magistrate (1 year MA) thesis explored the landscape of moral enhancement as a means for criminal rehabilitation (2013), and my Masters (2 year MA) thesis discussed ethical issues in decision-making processes leading up to deep brain stimulation (DBS) in paediatric populations (2014).

In my PhD thesis, The Ethics of Mind Maintenance, I analysed ethical trade-offs in the context of emerging technologies aimed at preventing and treating age-related neural decline and disease. The project sought to facilitate our understanding of the value trade-offs involved in utilising technologies for neurodegenerative diseases, the aim being to provide a guiding and ethically sound structure for patients and other users of the technologies.