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Stefanie Blain-Moraes is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia in the School of Biomedical Engineering. She leads the Biosignal Interaction Personhood Technology (BIAPT) Lab, where her research focuses on developing technologies to assess consciousness and facilitate relationships with minimally communicative persons. Her work seeks to create tools to detect varying levels of consciousness and support arts-based interactions such as music and therapeutic clowning. Dr. Blain-Moraes’s research involves individuals with disorders of consciousness, particularly in palliative care contexts, including adults with dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as children with autism and severe disabilities. Her contributions to the field have earned her several prestigious awards, including the Principal's Prize for Outstanding Emerging Researcher and membership in the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. Her teaching excellence has been recognized with awards from McGill University and others. Dr. Blain-Moraes is also committed to mentoring students, many of whom have gained national and international recognition for their research contributions.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.