Full Professor of Ethics, postdoctoral fellow in Bioethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics/Georgetown University, Washington DC, where she was also a Visiting Scholar. She is Vice-President of the European Group of Ethics in Science and New Technologies and an Ethics Expert at the European Commission.
Professor Maria do Céu Neves has held positions as: consultant of the President of the Republic for Life Ethics, member of the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences and member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics. She integrates several academic-scientific organisms such as the Centre for Toxicogenomics and Human Health (ToxOmics), the Law and Artificial Intelligence Group, of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law, and several Ethics Commissions, being Faculty Member of the American University of Sovereign Nations/AUSN (USA), coordinating several projects such as "Ethics, Science and Society: Challenges for BioPolitics" (2017-2019) and currently the "Biomedical Ethics and Regulatory Capacity Building Partnership for Portuguese Speaking African Countries". She is the author/coordinator of 36 books, including the 12-volume collection dedicated to Applied Ethics (2016-2018), and the Dictionary of Global Bioethics, with Henk ten Have (2021), and of nearly 200 articles, having delivered over 370 conferences. She is a regular columnist in regional and national journals. She was a Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014).
