Daniela Ovadia is an italian ethicist, science journalist and neuroscientist. She studied medicine and neuroscience (Università Statale, Milan, Italy) and neuroethics (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US). She is the Co-director of the Neuroscience and Society Lab at University of Pavia and the Scientific Director of the Center for Ethics in Science and Journalism, a non profit independent research center in Milan, Italy. 

She is an ERC grantee for the Frontiers Science Journslism Initiative and is involved in many EU funded projects on the use of AI in health and health communication, with a special focus on Ethics of technologies. She is professor of “Ethics of research and Responsible research and Innovation” for doctoral students, “Neuroethics” and “Communication of neuroscience” (undergraduate students in Psychology) at University of Pavia (Italy).