I’m a philosopher. My work focuses on bioethics and political philosophy. I am particularly interested in interpreting, defending, and exploring the implications of basic equality, the idea that all human beings (or all persons) are equal in moral status and deserve to be treated “as equals.” In bioethics, I am interested in the concept of moral status as it applies to so-called “marginal cases,” such as individuals in a permanent vegetative state, brain organoids, and frozen embryos.

I was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bar-Ilan University,  the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University, and the University of Chicago Law School (as a Law and Philosophy Fellow).

I received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Chicago (Dissertation title: “A Defense of Basic Equality”. Committee: Brian Leiter (co-chair), Martha Nussbaum (co-chair), and Dan Brudney.

Pronouncing my first name can be tricky, so I go by “Net.”