Academic roles
University of Vienna: Lecturer and co-investigator (main role)
Eugenia is the co-lead/investiator 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). She teaches an annual course on critical AI ethics and data ethics at the University of Vienna.
Prague Univerisity 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
Currently, she is a visiting professor at BTU Cottbus (Germany), teaching ethics of technology and social philosophy of digitial society.
In 2024/2025, she taucht ethics of algorithms at IMC Krems and in 2022/2023, she was a visiting research fellow 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 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.
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