Alfes | Human-AI Ethical Evolution

Wanice Carlos Alfes

Metacognitive Engineering:
Trust, High-Performance and Ethical Collaboration.

"The most important action now: to equip

our leaders with metacognitive advantages.

By driving sophisticated strategies we pave

societal advances, and build ethical alliances

within the AI revolution."

Committed with the scientific community to the safe leap in cognitive development

to accelerate positive neuroplasticity and improve the brain's ability, Alfes focuses on developing applied methods

for faster peaks of cognitive exponential growth and neural feedback loops towards

complex problem-solving, adaption, memory upgrades, and creative originality.

In her expert-intersection between life sciences and advanced technologies, she parallel aims at applying

those models to enhance H-AI ethical bio-model interactions.

The huge challenges organizations face:

We now experience a transition that demands collaboration within diverse fields more closely than ever. The main challenge is not primarily technological: it is the critical need for meaningful and effective communication among multicultural and interdisciplinary teams. These ecosystems arouse new "significant frictions".

Alfes has realized this current imperative during her thesis "Doctor-to-Doctor in Digital Communication"

(FHWien/ 2021), where specialists - applied theorists and formal scientists - often experience results´ delay due to the variant cultural- signals & lexicon fragmentation. She came up with the insight: by addressing the multidisciplinary nexus in the intersection of intercultural communication, neurocyberpsychology, and scientific lexicon (translating theory into formal models), we can build a strategic framework that accelerates and strengths trust and collaboration with high efficacy.

Confident about the immense value-communication environs, Alfes highlights the urge in new models for inter-disciplinary crossroads to meet the demands for ethical trust models, sovereignty integrity, and international alliances.

Education

Harvard University: Global Health Specialist

(Paper: "The Global Burden of Mental Illnesses," and the term E-Governmentality).

FHWien der WKW (Vienna): Cyberpsychology of Communication, MSc. (Thesis: "Doctor-to-Doctor

Information in the e-Health Era: A Model to Encourage Physicians in the Use of Digital Communication").

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT CSAIL): HCI-Human-Computer Interaction/User Experience

(Paper: "Exploring AI-Human Trust and Ethical Interaction Design - A Multidisciplinary Perspective").

University of Oxford: Executive Programme - Innovative Disruption.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Sloan): Design Thinking.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Sloan): Data & Analytics.

Specialized Studies: Neuroscience of Decision-Making (Cambridge University), Network Science

(University of Groningen), and Political Science (University of Grenoble).

Track Record

Alfes has an extensive executive track record in health, technology, and industry, holding senior leadership

roles in both Brazil and Europe. Her career is defined by operating at the intersection of complex systems,

from leading projects for global pharmaceutical organizations (Pfizer, Merck) to architecting new agencies

in sustainability (CSR) and e-Health.

Chief Communication Officer, permed-N (Germany, since 2019)

Agency specialized in e-Health Solutions.

Chief Marketing Officer, LatinMed/SP - Health Communication Solutions

Led projects for global organizations: Pfizer, VALE, Merck, Johnson & Johnson.

Founder & CEO, Crossroads Communication

Registered first official agency in Brazil (SP) for Sustainability/CSR.
Operated with industrial clients: CIESP, GERDAU, ATOTECH/TOTAL.

Metacognitive Engineering as the Framework for H-AI Co-Operation

The Mission: Engineering "Die Brücke" (The Bridge)

Alfes’s mission addresses the primary challenges of the AI Revolution: the need to advance the field of metacognition for exponential growth in problem-solving, multicultural cooperation and creative originality. Moreover, the fragmented academic lexicons of siloed human expertise.

Those gaps, now amplified by generative AI (LLMs), prevents the integrated solutions that complex systems demand. This mission posits that sustainable value is not found in the trend of the pursuit of "quality of life", and traditional theories of trust. But rather, in the rigorous application of systemic engineering ("Die Brücke") to Cognitive Architecture.

Her concept of metacognitive engineering operates at the intersection of Life Sciences and Cognitive Sciences through a multidisciplinary approach that englobes neuropsychology and engineering principles

by applying the same foundations to Cognitive Architecture that Life Sciences apply to the genome.

This framework moves beyond conventional "collaboration" to the engineerinf of High-Trust for the interdisciplinary "Co-Operation Eusystem" required for H-AI navigation.

Headquartered in Germany (GDPR) and anchored in Europe (FHWien/Oxford), and U.S research (MIT/Harvard), ViSP-Lab partners with Brazil as a platform for ethical, replicable, and scalable pilot programs to meet the accelerate demand for highg quality products and services beyond the evolution of Human-AI interaction.

Alfes´s multidisciplinary synthesis in track record (practice) and qualifications (theory) is the outcome

of a framework initiated nine years ago of advanced research - refined since 2024 during her post-graduate training that received full faculty endorsement at Harvard University.

Location

Alfes is based in Bad Homburg, Germany.

She has also lived in Zurich, Dubrovnik and Costa Rica,

Born in Rio de Janeiro and professional experience in Sao Paulo.

Since 2015, she operates between Berlin-Frankfurt.

Professional Associations & Affiliations

Cyberpsychology Association of Europe, International Association for Metacognition

American Psychological Association (APA), American Public Health Association (APHA)

MIT Technology Review, IEEE Computer Society.