Nedah Nemati, PhD

Assistant Professor , Alden March Bioethics Institute

Dr. Nemati received her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh and her MSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Prior to joining the Alden March Bioethics Institute faculty, she was the Robert A. Burt Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University.

Dr. Nemati’s research bridges philosophy, neuroscience, and biology. As a lab-based philosopher of neuroscience, she examines how scientists develop their understandings of behavior and cognition through experimental models, tools, and emerging technologies. Her current projects include interrogating the use of AI to decode and categorize animal behavior, as well as furthering comparative studies of behavior and cognition in evolutionary neurobiology. Her work is currently supported by a National Science Foundation grant, “Scientific Outcomes from AI Tools and Models.”

In addition to her role at AMBI, Dr. Nemati is Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Albany, SUNY, as well as a Project Affiliate at the International Brain Laboratory (IBL).

You can learn more about her research and teaching at www.nedahnemati.com

Recent Accomplishments:

Nemati, Nedah (2026). What is ‘Natural’ about Naturalistic Neuroscience? Biology & Philosophy.

Nemati, Nedah (2026). Neuroscience as Technoscience: The Importance of Materiality in Simplification, Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.

Dietrich, Michael and Nemati, Nedah (2026). Model Organisms, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Nemati, Nedah and Whiteway, Matthew (2025). Beyond the algorithmic oracle: rethinking machine learning in behavioral neuroscience, The Transmitter.

Nemati, Nedah (2024). Rethinking neuroscientific methodology: Lived experience in behavioral studies, Biological Theory.