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Cyril Birks

Cyril is a Doctoral Researcher in AI at the DR-NLP CDT. supervised by Neil Bramley. He researches how people and AI imagine what the world could look like and aim at the best outcome when they can’t be certain.

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Calliope Vakalopoulou

Calliope investigates the ethical implications of using generative AI chatbots in mental health contexts, focusing on how such technologies challenge traditional notions of care, autonomy, and emotional integrity in therapeutic relationships.

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Alexandra Gillespie

Alex’s PhD is exploring the impacts of Digital Immortality Technologies and the possible regulatory or ethical frameworks that could mitigate harm, pulling on considerations in HCI, Digital Ethics, and AI Regulation.

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Jyotirupa Das

Jyotirupa’s PhD research explores welfare beneficiaries’ attitudes towards sharing data with the State in India, particularly in the context of reproductive and maternal healthcare . She is interested in situated conceptualisations of privacy and the ethics of information sharing.

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Claudia González-Márquez

Claudia González-Márquez is a Teaching and Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Data, and the Rule of Law. Claudia is Programme Staff on the interdisciplinary MSc in Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics, and serves as course organiser for ‘Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics, Law and Governance’.

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Emily Sullivan

Dr Emily Sullivan serves as a Co-Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy. Emily joined the Futures Institute in 2025 following academic appointments in the Netherlands at Utrecht University and Eindhoven University of Technology.

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Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses upon the impact of recent and emerging technologies on human flourishing.

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Aulia Ardista Wiradarmo

Aulia is researching how generative AI is reshaping creative processes, values, and virtues, while examining the social and cultural dimensions of co-creating with machines to inform policies on ethical AI in the creative industries of the Global South.

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Alexander Martin Mussgnug

Alexander’s PhD research project is the Role of Measurement in Machine Learning and Ethical Implications of the Philosophy of Measurement, co-supervised in the School of Informatics and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences.

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Rayo Verweij

Rayo's PhD research explores participatory constructionist methods for the inclusion of children and young people in the design and development of real-world AI-based tools for schools.

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Ambrose Brown

Ambrose is an MLOps specialist studying a PhD at the University’s Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute. Their work focuses on AI Ethics and they are currently doing research on explainability and reasoning.

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Enrico Galvagni

Dr Enrico Galvagni is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Philosophy. His research focuses on ethics and its development, with a particular interest in moral concepts and how they enable us to deal with new and disruptive problems.

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Eilidh Bowman

Eilidh’s research explores the ethical dimensions relating to the adoption of companion robots to support ageing-in-place for older adults experiencing feelings of loneliness and social isolation.

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Adam Lopez

Dr Adam Lopez is a Reader in the School of Informatics. His research for the past two decades has focused on language technology, spanning a wide range of related scientific, mathematical, and engineering problems. He is now most interested in problems related to fairness, accountability, and transparency of language technology.

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Aditya Singh

Aditya’s PhD research project is A Data Ethics Framework for Agriculture, co-supervised in the Roslin Institute’s Global Academies by experts in international law and mathematical modelling as related to food security and the global food system.

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Alice Ross

Alice’s research focuses on speech in human-computer interaction, using mixed methods to explore how speaking style is influenced by talkers’ identity, audience, stance, and communicative goals.

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