Eugenia Stamboliev

Postdoc

Research

  • AI ethics & media ethics & critical AI studies
  • Post-Critical AI literacy
  • Dis/trust in AI and trustworthy AI
  • AI and human labour
  • Gender biased and discriminatory AI (board member of Women in AI)
  • Further interests in climate & AI narratives, (non) 'emotional' AI

Academic

Eugenia is a research fellow and lecturer in philosophy of media and technology at the University of Vienna and a visiting professor at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

She leads two research projects: She is the co-investigator of a WWTF funded project named "Decentralised Trust in Digital Societies" (DTDS, 2025-2027) in which she looks at trust concepts and norms in decentralised governmental technology, like the European Digital Identity Wallet. Eugenia is also a co-investigator in a GACR funded project on Large Language Models and democracy (2024-2026) at the Prague University of Economics and Business. In her previous project, Interpretability and Explainability as Drivers to Democracy, she focused on the influence of complex algorithmic structures and democratic concepts.

In 2022/2023, she held a visiting fellowship at the Philosophy Department at Tilburg University (NL), exploring the concept of trustworthiness in EU policy (in collaboration with Tim Christiaens). 

She published, among other, on how empty is trustworthy AI; a post-critical AI literacy; algorithmic uncanniness of health applications; care robots, tracking and performative ethics; care robots on the theatre stage or the philosophy of screen bodies through the work of Flusser and Münsterberg.

She acts as a reviewer for various national and international forums, like the TU Wien Academic Press, NWO and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR).

Outreach

She is a board member of Women in AI Austria and speaks regularily on the role of "AI" in democracy, focussing on topics like inequality, dis/trust, labour and gender.

Education

Eugenia holds various degrees and disciplines: PhD in Transdisciplinary Studies, specialising on robot ethics and technology ethics (in the Marie-Curie program 'CogNovo' at Plymouth University, United Kingdom); Doctoral courses in PACT (Philosophy, Art & Critical Theory), European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland; Diplom (BA and MA) in Media and Communication Studies, University of Arts Berlin, Germany; and a Vordiplom in Law Studies, Free University Berlin, Germany

Contact:

eugenia.stamboliev(at)univie.ac.at / eugeniastamboliev.com / https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenia-stamboliev-8383a059/