Rate My Professor Julian Savulescu

Julian Savulescu holds the Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics position at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, where he serves as Head of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics since August 2022. He continues as Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford at 20% capacity, a role he has occupied since 2002. Additionally, he is Visiting Professorial Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute since July 2017 and Distinguished International Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Melbourne since July 2017. Savulescu obtained his Bachelor of Medical Science with First Class Honours in 1985, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery with First Class Honours in 1988, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1994, all from Monash University. His training spans neuroscience, medicine, and philosophy. Among his honors are Fellowship in the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2019), Fellowship in the Australian Academy of Arts and Humanities (2023), the Daniel M. Wegner Prize for Theoretical Innovation (2019), an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest (2014), and Monash University Distinguished Alumnus (2009).

Savulescu's distinguished career includes directing the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics from 2003 to 2022, editing the Journal of Medical Ethics from 1998-2002 and 2011-2018, and founding and editing the Journal of Practical Ethics from 2012-2018. He previously headed the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health’s Centre for Human Bioethics from 2014 to 2018, directed the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease from 2014-2022, and founded the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics from 2008-2013. His research focuses on practical ethics, medical ethics, neuroethics, bioethics, and the ethics of new technologies, including enhancement, moral bioenhancement, and infectious disease responsibility. Notable publications include 'Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children' (Bioethics, 2001), the co-edited 'Human Enhancement' (Oxford University Press, 2009), 'Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement' (2012), and the textbook 'Medical Ethics and Law: The Core Curriculum' (3rd edition). With over 650 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, he boasts an h-index of 96 and more than 38,000 citations per Google Scholar. Savulescu's contributions have profoundly shaped bioethics discourse, authoring standard texts used in UK medical schools and leading high-impact journals in the field.