Stefano Canali is junior assistant professor (RTDA) at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano. His research is based in philosophy of science, with particular interests in the philosophy of medicine, data and technology and with a grounding in scientific and technological practice. His current projects investigate the epistemology and ethics of advanced technologies for digital health and personalised medicine, including wearable devices and artificial intelligence, in collaboration with research labs in biomedical and computer science engineering at the Politecnico and beyond. He currently teaches a course titled Biomedical Technologies: Philosophical and Ethical Issues for several master's programmes in engineering.
Before joining the Politecnico, Stefano received his PhD as a member of the graduate school "Integrating the Ethics and Epistemology of Scientific Research" at Leibniz Universität Hannover (2019), completed a MSc in philosophy of science and science and technology studies at University College London (2015) and a BA in philosophy at the University of Milan (2014).