Manuela Fernández Pinto is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and head of the Center for Applied Ethics at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. She received her Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Notre Dame in 2014, and then conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Helsinki, before moving back to her home country.
Fernández Pinto was recruited at Los Andes as an expert in research ethics and scientific integrity. She has also been a member of the IRB at Los Andes since 2017. Research ethics has been at the core of her research interests as a philosopher of science. Together with Prof. Torsten Wilholt (Hannover), Fernández Pinto is working on a project on biases in science, with the aim of understanding the different types of biases that scientists can introduce in their research practices, including those methodological biases that seem to emerge more significantly in commercially driven science. She also has a DFG-funded project together with Prof. Anna Leuschner (Wuppertal) on epistemic intimidation, studying how attacks on researchers affect our capacity to produce and disseminate scientific knowledge. She is co-PI of an NIH-funded Master’s program in Bioethics and Research Ethics at Los Andes.