Our Affiliates

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.

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.

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.

Alice’s research looks at speech technology and human-computer interaction. Her project aims to explore the experiences, attitudes, and concerns of people who have speech difficulties in new contexts.

Amanda Horzyk is a PhD candidate in Responsible NLP. Her research bridges legal and technical perspectives in developing leading solutions to complex issues presented by Artificial Intelligence, the Internet and Virtual Reality.

Andrew is a third year PhD student with the Usher Institute, researching the implementation and evaluation practices of robotic surgery systems. Andrew’s research draws on his roots in moral theory, and its application to contemporary medical high technology, as well as practice theory empowered by an ethnographic methodology.

Dr Benedetta Catanzariti is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her work explores the social, ethical, and political dimensions of data-driven technologies, with a focus on machine learning and its related data practices. She is also a core member of the Edinburgh-based network AI Ethics & Society.

Burkhard is Professor of Computational Legal Theory, with a particular interest in the use of technology in the justice system, legal responses to technological developments, and the changing vision of the just society under the rule of law.

In her research, Caterina weaves together philosophical dimensions of digital technologies and the analysis of creative practices to investigate the impact that emerging technological innovations have on the creation, consumption, and ownership of content.

Claudia’s research is at the intersection of neurotechnology and law. They aim to provide a comprehensive framework to counteract neurohacking and safeguard brain data.

Des Higham is Professor of Numerical Analysis in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh with interests that include the study of vulnerabilities in Artificial Intelligence systems.

Dr Emily Postan is a Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics in Edinburgh Law School. Her research focuses on the ethical implications of the ways that encounters with health data and health technologies affect our identities and relationships to others. 

Dr Gavin Sullivan is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at Edinburgh Law School and Principal Investigator on the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law.

Gemma is a writer and researcher focused on corporate futurism and the cultural economy of deep tech. She is a PhD researcher at Edinburgh University and a Research Associate at Glasgow University. She is author of 'Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It'.

Giles is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy. His courses include Ethics of AI (MSc). He explores normativity, agency, and the ethical dimensions of AI in his research.

Dr Giulia De Togni is an experienced ethnographer and an interdisciplinary social scientist specialising in Science and Technology Studies. Her work focuses on responsible research and innovation for AI and robotics applications in the health and care sectors.

Jacqueline’s PhD research explores how to make Natural Language Processing tools and technologies safer, fairer and more equitable for speakers of marginalised languages, drawing on her interdisciplinary background in linguistics, human rights and computer science.

James Garforth teaches ethics, social responsibility and teamwork to undergraduate students in the School of Informatics, and supervises projects to develop tools and practices supportive of responsible development. 

Karen Gregory is a digital sociologist and ethnographer. Her work explores the nature and experience of self-employment in the platform economy with a focus on risk, precarity, and worker data rights.

Kimberley is researching community-based approaches to NLP and exploring how participatory methods can make generative AI safer for Queer people by challenging technocratic structures and centering grassroots knowledge in AI and data governance.

Dr Marc Juarez is a Lecturer in Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Edinburgh. His research addresses the privacy and security risks of the widespread application of machine learning techniques. He is also interested in algorithmic fairness and has collaborated with the MD4SG’s “Bias, Discrimination, and Fairness” working group.

Dr Marion Boulicault is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and a Co-Director of the Harvard GenderSci Lab. Her research applies a feminist approach to questions in the philosophy of science and technology. 

Melody has a background in human-computer/robot interaction and product-service system design. Her work focuses on using creative methods and participatory approaches to address open, complex, dynamic, and networked sociotechnical challenges.

Mike is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the project “Democracy, Rights and the Rule of Law in the Data-driven Society” where he applies insights from republican political theory to issues in AI involvement in governmental decision procedures. Mike recently received a PhD with distinction for his thesis “The Kantian Republic” at the University of Groningen. 

Milo Phillips-Brown is a Lecturer in the Philosophy of Technology at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics and Governance at the Jain Family Institute.

Dr Morshed Mannan’s work explores the governance of digital labour and social media platforms, data infrastructures, and distributed ledger technologies, with a particular interest in cooperative and commons-based approaches.

Dr Kokciyan is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include human-centered AI, Privacy, Argument Mining, Responsible AI and AI Ethics. She is currently teaching 'Case Studies in AI Ethics (CSAI)' course in her School. 

Nayha Sethi is Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation. Nayha’s research and teaching focusses on exploring blurred boundaries between, and building responsible regulatory approaches across healthcare, research and innovation.

Professor Nehal Bhuta FRSE holds the Chair of Public International Law at University of Edinburgh and is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.