CV

  • My research focuses on philosophy of technology, (technological) anthropology, and environmental ethics. I studied Philosophy, Catholic Theology, and German Studies in Münster and Munich.
  • My doctorate focused on the concept of the human in transhumanism at the Munich School of Philosophy. Since then, I have conducted research in Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Oxford, Cambridge (UK), Berkeley (USA), and Twente (Netherlands).
  • I am also an affiliated researcher in the ESDiT Research Programme (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies) in the Netherlands and a member of the Critical Data Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin, where I work on the ethics of emerging technologies.

 

Research focus

Research interests

  • Ethics of Technology: AI ethics, robot ethics, large language models (LLMs), bots and AI agents, death bots and grief bots, relationships with environment and technology
  • Human & Technology (anthropology of technology): identity, personhood, agency, autonomy
  • Relational Approaches: postphenomenology, Latour, new materialism (Barad, Haraway, Suchman, Hayles, Braidotti)
  • Transhumanism, Enhancement, Big Tech and Technological Ideologies, Political Ethics, Right-Wing Populism
  • Diversity and Justice: gender (feminism, queer feminism), intercultural approaches, epistemic justice
  • Medical and Bioethics: medical technologies (e.g. digital twin technology, mHealth, reproductive technologies, ectogestation)
  • Environmental Ethics: sustainability, non-human agency, personhood, life, animal ethics
  • Religion and AI: religious robotics, religious bots, LLMs