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Team Overview

Core Team

Prof. Dr. Maximilian Kiener

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Moral & legal philosophy, consent, responsibility, ethics of AI

Dr. Jonas Bozenhard

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AI ethics, creativity & authorship, philosophy of technology, value-sensitive design, aesthetics, AI-powered innovation

Dr. Imke Hofmeister

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History of architectural styles, 19th–21st century art & design, corporate design of art museums, digital art & AI in art

Dr. Oliver Schmidt

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Spatial theory of film, genre theory, history of Hollywood cinema, digital culture, cultural robotics

Dr. Kevin Baum

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Head, CERTAIN (DFKI)
Trustworthy AI, LLM calibration, perspicuous computing

Leo Maedje

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Reflective equilibrium, metaethics, methodology, political philosophy

Jan Hölzer

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Ethics of autonomous driving & AI, responsibility of IT professionals, ethics by design in AI development

Valentin Weber

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Ethics of smart cities, NGCN/HAWICC project, Ethics of Social Media, digital ethics

Gesa Dolkemeyer

Research assistant

Supports ECIU seminar 'Creativity and Artificial Intelligence' (Bozenhard)
Fair & non-discriminatory algorithms

Burak Büyükkaya

Research & teaching assistant

Supports 'Blue Engineering' seminar
Sustainable development, water access

Maryam Abdi

Teaching assistant

Supports 'Blue Engineering' seminar
Engineering ethics, sustainability, anti-discrimination

Associates

Prof. Dr. Thomas Douglas

Professor of Applied Philosophy, University of Oxford

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

University of Zurich, Institute of Biomedical Ethics

Clinical ethics, neonatal ethics, reproductive technologies

Dr. David Storrs-Fox

Early Career Fellow, Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford

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, University of 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, University 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