Franziska Poszler
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Franziska Poszler
Postdoc
Franziska Poszler is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on AI ethics, value-sensitive design, moral psychology, and creative science communication, with an emphasis on the interplay between AI, decision-making, and morality. Specifically, she investigates how ethical principles can be embedded in AI systems and explores the potential of LLM-based chatbots as moral dialogue partners.
She is currently working on a project examining AI Ethics in healthcare, with a focus on the socio-cultural dimensions of ethical AI and its role in mental health support.
Previously, she worked as a doctoral candidate and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). At TUM, she contributed as a researcher to interdisciplinary projects on the impact of intelligent decision-support systems on ethical decision-making (UTEM) and on ethics in autonomous driving (ANDRE). She also served as Principal Investigator and Project Lead of the MoralPLai project, which developed a research-based theatre play aimed at fostering AI literacy.
Her doctoral dissertation, Integrating ethical principles into AI systems: Practical implementation and societal implications, received the Roman Herzog Research Prize for the Social Market Economy.
She holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.Sc. in Business Administration with a minor in Psychology from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and an M.Sc. in Organisational Behaviour from the London School of Economics and Political Science.