Dr. Sheri Alpert is a Lecturer and Associate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics. Immediately prior to her arrival at Penn, Dr. Alpert was at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia) working on issues in neuroethics. Before that, she was the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Alpert worked for the U.S. federal government in various agencies and offices, including the Office of Management and Budget and the National Bioethics Advisory Commission.

Dr. Alpert's Ph.D. is in public policy, with a focus on science and technology policy, from George Mason University, and her main research interests and publications to date have focused on medical and genetic privacy. Her current research focuses on ethical and policy issues associated with emerging medical technologies, particularly in the neuroscience realm, and the future convergence of these and other technologies, such as nanotechnology. Dr. Alpert is an Associate Editor for the journal Neuroethics and on the editorial board for Accountability in Research. She has spoken nationally and internationally on issues of medical and genetic privacy, as well as on ethical issues in implantable brain-computer interface devices