Academic roles
University of Vienna: Lecturer, researcher and co-investigator (main occupancy)
Eugenia is the co-lead and investigator 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).
At the University of Vienna, she teaches an annual course on critical AI ethics and data ethics.
Prague University of Economics and Business: Co-investigator
Eugenia is also the co-investigator of a GACR-funded project on LLMs/GenAI & democracy at the Prague University of Economics and Business.
Technical University Brandenburg (BTU): Professor
Until October 2025, she was a visiting professor at BTU Cottbus (Germany), teaching the ethics of technology and the social philosophy of digital societies.
Oxford Internet Institute (OII): Visiting Research Fellow
In 2026, Eugenia will be a visiting research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) (UK), working on an infrastructural critique of trustworthy AI.
TIlburg University: Visiting Fellow
In 2022/2023, she was a visiting research fellow at the Philosophy Department at Tilburg University (NL).
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)
Advisory roles and public engagement
Eugenia reviews and advises for various national and international journals, forums and policy groups, like the UNESCO, the NWO, TU Wien Academic Press, and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR).
Eugenia is a board member of Women in AI Austria. In this role, she is currently advising on the scientific outline for the first Austrian federal LLM ("Bundes-LLM") (in collaboration with the FFG, OFAI, and other partners).
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