Eugenia Stamboliev

Postdoc research fellow

Research

  • AI ethics & media ethics & critical AI studies
  • Post-Critical AI literacy
  • Dis/trust in AI and trustworthy AI
  • Gender biased and discriminatory AI 

Academic

Eugenia is a research fellow and lecturer in philosophy of media and technology at the University of Vienna and a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University.

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.

Next to her research, Eugenia is also a lecturer in Data Ethics and Legal Issues at the University of Vienna.

In 2025, she held a visiting professorship in ethics of technology and digital society at the Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) (DE). In 2022/2023, she was a visiting fellow at the Philosophy Department at Tilburg University (NL).

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). She advices national projects, for example, on developing the first federal LLM, and on the "AI ecosystem" (FFG).

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 EU 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 / Linkedin profile