Our People

Dr Beatrice Bonami is a Brazilian Science, Technology, and Society (STS) scholar and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the planetary networks and materiality of AI systems (with specific focus on data centres in the Global South).

A CTMF Visiting PhD Researcher from Sept - Oct 2026, Robin Hillenbrink is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on socially disruptive technologies, conceptual disruption and change, and technomoral change.

Xin’s research explores the social and ethical dimensions of AI production through ethnographic research on data annotation labour in rural China. She has research interests in anthropology, STS, digital labour, and AI ethics.

Nayantara’s research project examines how digital technologies are reshaping humanitarian care. She is interested in humanitarian innovation, the politics of aid, and refugee governance in the SWANA region.

Saimun’s work focuses on using formal methods in causality, neurosymbolic AI, and AI alignment in order to make legible the limits of computational systems operating in consequential social contexts.

Building on her dual background in philosophy and data science, Stella is applying causal modelling to compare blood transfusion strategies in critical care, while conducting critical ethical analysis of the ways that causal methods are “sold” in academic literature.

Adaobi is a doctoral researcher examining how African governance frameworks and ethical traditions can shape equitable, responsible and community-aligned approaches to genomics, biobanking and health data use.

Brittany is a PhD student in Linguistics, working on metapragmatics and the imitation of languages/ways of speaking. In particular, she applies sociolinguistic frameworks to written mock language in internet memes. 

Dr Nardo is a philosopher of education based at the Moray House School of Education and Sport. Her research focuses on how technologies reshape the conditions of educational formation.

Yuyun is a PhD student in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Her research studies the imaginaries of care robotics in China.

Dr Victoria Wang is a PhD student in philosophy of science. Their research focusses on the value-ladenness of scientific practices, especially in epidemiology and public health as they aim to understand and alleviate health inequalities.

Ismini Nikoleta Mathioudaki is a postdoctoral researcher on the Infralegalities project at the University of Edinburgh.

In her PhD, Bríd-Áine is investigating digital identity and examining the social impacts of name misrepresentation on culture and identity within a context of data colonialism, linguistic imperialism and techno-solutionism.

Constantine is a Research Fellow and dual PhD candidate whose work integrates moral psychology with computational social science to advance Responsible AI.

Vasilisa’s research interests lie in low-resource languages and the ethical issues they face in generative NLP. Before starting her PhD, she worked as an ML engineer in game development, building recommendation systems, predictive models, and NLP tools for chat moderation and support automation.

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.

Nadia Jude is a postdoctoral researcher within the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, AI and International Law.

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.

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.

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.

An EFI Visiting Fellow from September - December 2025, Dr Ramsha Naeem is an Assistant Professor and Head of the MBA Program at the University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan.

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’.

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.

September 2025 - June 2026

Prior to his appointment as a Postdoctoral Associate in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Ben Schwartz was a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy.

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.

Alexander’s PhD research project was on 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.

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.

An EFI Visiting Fellow from April - June 2025, Dr Audrey Borowski is a Research Fellow on the “Desirable Digitalization” project between the Universities of Bonn and Cambridge.

An EFI Visiting Fellow from September 2024 - February 2025, Dr Anissa Tanweer conducts research on the practice and culture of computationally-mediated science.