Michèle Barbier

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Talk Title: Ethical considerations in the design of virtual human twinss

Michèle Barbier is a marine scientist, project manager and ethics expert. She obtained her PhD at UPMC, Michèle Barbier is a marine scientist, project manager, and ethics expert. She earned her PhD at UPMC, followed by several post-doctoral positions in Tahiti, the United States, and France. She has also been a project manager specializing in marine genomics and biotechnology. She has been an ethics expert for the European Commission since 2017 and an ethics advisor for European projects. She is now employed full-time at the Inria Center at the Université Côte d'Azur, where she has managed European-funded projects on digital twins of the heart (SimCardioTest and inEurHeart). She is also a partner in the MEDITWIN project (personalized virtual twins of organs, metabolism, and cancerous tumors) with the aim to implement an Ethics Advisory Board and has launched a working group at the French Ministry of Health on virtual human twins and ethics. She is a partner in the META-TOO project, which focuses on inappropriate social interactions in the metaverse.