Rate My Professor Ines Hipolito

Inês Hipólito (BPhil, MPhil, MSc, DPhil) serves as Lecturer in Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. She earned her BPhil from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2010, MPhil from University of Lusofona in 2012, MSc in Cognitive Science from University of Lisbon in 2016, MSc in Neuroscience from King's College London in 2019, and DPhil in Philosophy from University of Wollongong in 2020. Prior to her current role, she was Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 2021 to 2023. Hipólito's research centers on philosophy of mind, E-cognition, complexity science, artificial intelligence, artificial life, and the interplay between mind, technology, and culture. She investigates E-cognition's applications to augmented forms of cognition, including brain-computer interfaces, neurotechnologies, and smart environments. As primary chief investigator, she leads projects such as "Neurourbanism as a novel approach to mental health" funded by the Berlin University Alliance (2023-2025) and "Interacting with smart environments to promote wellbeing: an active inference account" (2022-2023).

Hipólito has authored key publications including "AI and the relationship between agency, autonomy, and moral patiency" with Paul Formosa and Tom Montefiore (2026), "Beyond control: Will to Power in AI" with Paul Mikhail Catapang Podosky (2025), "Substance addiction: cure or care?" with N. Chinchella (2025), "Widening the screen: embodied cognition and audiovisual online social interaction in the digital age" with R. R. Torbjørnsen (2025), and "Designing explainable artificial intelligence with active inference: a framework for transparent introspection and decision-making" with M. Albarracin et al. (2024). She has received 19 research awards, among them the Australasian Association of Philosophy Postgraduate Paper Prize (2018), Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Talent Grant (2021), Merit and Excellence Master's Thesis from the Ministry of Technology and Higher Education of Portugal (2012), Federation of European Neuroscience Society Scholarship (2016), and University of Wollongong Postgraduate Award (2017). Hipólito is co-founder and vice-president of the International Society of the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (2022-present), served on the Women in Philosophy and Diversity Committees of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (2017-2020), and contributes as guest editor for Consciousness and Cognition and reviewer for journals including Synthese, Neuroscience of Consciousness, Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, and Frontiers in Neurorobotics. She delivers invited keynote talks at international events and participates in podcasts, while advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, building a community of over 600 members.