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I'm an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I'm also an associated faculty member in the Philosophy Department at Penn. Previously I was a Bersoff Faculty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at NYU. I received my Ph.D. in philosophy from MIT in 2024.

Before graduate school, I was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. I completed my undergraduate degree at Wellesley College in philosophy and biology.

My research is primarily in normative ethics. I'm especially interested in the ethics of influencing behavior and the notions of freedom and autonomy that underly our complaints against wrongful behavioral influence. Recently I've written on topics such as manipulation and paternalism. I also write about issues in bioethics and co-host a bioethics podcast called Bio(un)ethical.

Here's how I pronounce my name.

CV; Contact me at sgibert [at symbol] upenn [dot] edu