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Team

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Kiener

Photo of Maximilian Kiener — Head of Institute · Moral & legal philosophy, consent, responsibility, ethics of AI · Professor at TUHH & Research Associate, Oxford Uehiro Centre

Dr. Jonas Bozenhard

Photo of Jonas Bozenhard — Postdoctoral researcher · AI ethics, creativity & authorship, philosophy of technology, value-sensitive design, aesthetics, AI-powered innovation · DPhil Oxford (creativity & AI)

Dr. Imke Hofmeister

Photo of Imke Hofmeister — Postdoctoral researcher · History of architectural styles, 19th–21st century art & design, corporate design of art museums, digital art & AI in art

Dr. Oliver Schmidt

Photo of Oliver Schmidt — Postdoctoral researcher · Spatial theory of film, genre theory, history of Hollywood cinema, digital culture, cultural robotics · Co-editor, Rabbit Eye — Zeitschrift für Filmforschung

Dr. Kevin Baum

Photo of Kevin Baum — Senior Researcher · Head, CERTAIN (DFKI) · Trustworthy AI, LLM calibration, perspicuous computing

Leo Maedje

Photo of Leo Maedje — Doctoral researcher · Metaethics & methodology: metaethical constructivism and the method of reflective equilibrium · Supervised by Kiener · BA Oxford (PPE), MSc LSE (Political Theory)

Jan Hölzer

Photo of Jan Hoelzer — External doctoral researcher (Mercedes-Benz) · Ethics of autonomous driving & AI, responsibility of IT professionals, ethics by design in AI development · Lecturer, TU Braunschweig

Valentin Weber

Photo of Valentin Weber — Doctoral researcher · Ethics of smart cities, NGCN/HAWICC project, Ethics of Social Media, digital ethics · MA Ethics of Text Cultures (Elite Network of Bavaria)

Gesa Dolkemeyer

Research assistant · Supports ECIU seminar 'Creativity and Artificial Intelligence' (Bozenhard) · Fair & non-discriminatory algorithms · BSc Data Science, TUHH

Burak Büyükkaya

Research & teaching assistant · Supports 'Blue Engineering' seminar · Sustainable development, water access · MSc Environmental Engineering, TUHH

Maryam Abdi

Teaching assistant · Supports 'Blue Engineering' seminar · Engineering ethics, sustainability, anti-discrimination · MSc Microelectronics & Microsystems, TUHH

Lina Jakubczick

Research & teaching assistant · Supports 'Blue Engineering' seminar · Responsible water infrastructure, democratic approaches to learning · BSc Civil & Environmental Engineering, TUHH

Associates

Prof. Dr. Thomas Douglas

Professor of Applied Philosophy · Cognitive enhancement, mental integrity, moral bioenhancement

Dr. Alice Evatt

Research Fellow, Oxford Net Zero · Climate ethics & policy, carbon removal, emergency theory

Dr. Lisa Forsberg

Research Fellow, University of Oxford · Consent, decision-making capacity, medical law

Michael Kolain

Research Associate, Digital Law & Tech Policy · AI regulation, cybersecurity law, data protection

Dr. Alice Cavolo

Univ. Zurich, Inst. of Biomedical Ethics · Clinical ethics, neonatal ethics, reproductive technologies

Dr. David Storrs-Fox

Early Career Fellow, Institute for Ethics in AI · AI ethics, epistemic responsibility, climate ethics

Emily Elstub

PhD candidate, Cambridge (Leverhulme CFI) · Freedom of thought, governance of emerging technologies

Dominic McGuire

MSt Practical Ethics, Oxford · Moral status of AI, ethics of artificial entities

Sanaa Abrahams

PhD candidate, Radboud University · Moral & political philosophy, bioethics, medical AI ethics

Dr. Juan-Pablo Bermúdez

Lecturer, Univ. of Southampton · Philosophy of mind, autonomy-supportive AI design, self-control

Dr. Thomas Mitchell

Research Fellow · Trust, persuasive technologies, algorithmic targeting, online influence

Dr. Gary O'Brien

Research Asst. Professor, Lingnan University · Population ethics, environmental ethics, catastrophic risk