Tamami Fukushi

Tamami Fukushi is a professor at Faculty of Human Welfare, Tokyo Online University. She used to study neurophysiology at the graduate school of science of Kyoto University and took Ph.D. in Behavioral Science by the study of neural control of movement based on visual recognition using non-human primates. After almost 7 years postdoctoral experience in University of Minnesota, Tamami came back to Japan and started career in Neuroethics at the Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (RISTEX), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as a researcher of cohort project called “Japan Children’s Study Group” and contributed to a dissemination of neuroethics in Japan and Asia. Since the cohort project closing in 2009, she has experienced science policy at the Center for Research and development Strategies (CRDS) in JST, regulatory science at Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (PMDA), Impact Science at Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), extending her career to science policy and international cooperation/harmonization in regulation/governance of life science technologies and medicines.

In 2017 she rebooted neuroethics activity and actively committed the international collaborative activities through Global Neuroethics Summit, International Brain Initiative Neuroethics Working Group, IEEE Neuroethics Framework, ISO IEC JTC1 SC43, iBCI-CC and UNICEF Innocenti. Based on such achievement, from February 2025 she assigned steering committee member of OECD BNCT project1 as a neuroethics expert and participated in UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting on the Draft Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology as an expert member of Japanese Delegation in May 2025.

Her current interest of neuroethics is Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) of Neurotechnology in addition to ethics education of advanced technology of neuroscience in the context of bioethics, engineering ethics, science policy and regulatory science.