Jason Scott Robert is Lincoln Associate Professor of Ethics in Biotechnology and Medicine, and Associate Professor of Life Sciences, at Arizona State University. He directs the Bioethics, Policy, and Law Program, part of the Center for Biology and Society. In addition, he serves as Associate Professor of Basic Medical Sciences at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, in partnership with Arizona State University, where he is Director of Education for the Scholarly Project, and Director of the Medicine and Society Theme. Prior to his move to the US, Dr Robert was Assistant Professor and Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He earned his PhD in Philosophy in 2000 from McMaster University.

Professor Robert is extensively published in bioethics and the philosophy of biology, including papers in leading science, philosophy, and bioethics journals, and a book, Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously, with Cambridge University Press. His research currently focuses on how scientists try to justify controversial research; he is presently completing a book manuscript on the moral limits of science.

      Dr Robert currently serves on the National Science Foundation review panel for doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships in Science, Technology, and Society, the Nominating Committee of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, and the Institute Advisory Board of the Canadian Institute of Population and Public Health. He is co-editor for Philosophy of Biology for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and a member of the Editorial Board of Biological Theory. He has previously served as Program Co-chair for the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and on a variety of committees for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

In 2008, ASU President Crow selected Robert as one of a handful of Promotion and Tenure "Exemplars" who exhibit the characteristics of excellent scholarship, teaching, and service that represent the New American University.