Johanna is a DPhil student in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences focusing on the political economy of AI. Her research explores how institutions and resources shape AI adoption. She studies worker representation and AI use at German firms and low-resource AI chat bots in Sierra Leone to understand how to steer technological progress toward shared prosperity.
Johanna holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a BA in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is a Schmidt Sciences AI@Work Grantee. Her DPhil is funded by the OII’s Shirley Scholarship and the Foundation of German Business.
Outside academia, Johanna enjoys swimming, gardening, and sewing.
Economics of AI, Political Economy, Labour Economics, Future of Work, Causal Inference
This project investigates how worker representation in German firms shapes AI use and adoption, asking whether employee voice at firms can steer AI toward complementing workers rather than automating them.
This project investigates how low-resource AI chatbots shape labour and education outcomes in digitally underserved communities in Sierra Leone.
