Research and Expertise

Academic roles

Eugenia holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Vienna and is the co-lead of the project 'Decentralised Trust in Digital Societies". Awarded by the Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds, WWTF, this project is aimed at studying ethical, democratic and technical trust relations in decentralised systems like the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDIW). Eugenia is also the co-investigator of a GACR-funded project on LLMs/GenAI & democracy at the Prague University of Economics and Business.

In addition, she teaches critical AI ethics and data ethics at the University of Vienna and at the IMC Krems. 

In 2022/2023, she was a visiting research fellow at Tilburg University (NL). She is an active member of Women in AI Austria and a fellow in the FFG initiative for fostering more female leaders and innovators.

Eugenia reviews for various national and international forums, like the TU Wien Academic Press, the NWO, and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR).

Key research 

• Ethical and political critique of 'artificial intelligence' (AI) as a technology, network, media and infrastructure 

• Exploitation, labour and maintenance via platforms or AI

• (Dis)trust and (un)trustworthiness of AI or ML

• Bias and discrimination through AI/algorithms

• Policy and regulation of large platforms and AI (i.e. EU Acts)

• Women in AI (as a topic and structure)

Public speaking / expertise

• Critical philosophy and ethics of (so-called) 'Artificial Intelligence'

• Platform critique (trust and labour)

• Data ethics (ethical and legal aspects)

• Media ethics (material and service perspectives)

• Woman and/in/through AI (in/visibility and representation of women in AI)

Contact:  eugenia.stamboliev(at)univie.ac.at