Emily Sullivan
Co-Director, Centre for Technomoral Futures
Dr Emily Sullivan serves as a Co-Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. 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. She is an associate editor for The British Journal of Philosophy of Science, and in 2025 she was awarded the Simion Award from the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. She is currently the PI on an ERC Starting Grant (2025-2030) that conceptualizes and evaluates machine learning models across science and society as a type of toy model. In this project, she bridges epistemic and ethical issues in simple computational models with complex modern day machine learning models.