About

Dr. Eugenia Stamboliev is a research fellow and lecturer in philosophy of technology and media at the University of Vienna and an associated researcher at the Prague University of Business and Economics. Until autumn 2025, she was also a visiting professor at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Germany. Her research addresses ethical and democratic questions related to artificial intelligence and digital infrastructures. She places particular emphasis on transdisciplinary methods and on topics such as (un)trustworthy AI, critical AI literacy, algorithmic (in)visibility, and AI-driven gender inequality.

She currently co-leads two research projects: one on democracy and large language models, and the other on decentralised structures and trust. As a board member of Women in AI Austria, she is developing, together with partners such as the FFG and the ASAI, a scientific framework for the implementation of Austria’s first federal large language model. She also acts as an ethical advisor to the Austrian “AI ecosystems” initiative.

Eugenia holds degrees in law from the Free University of Berlin and in media and communication from the Berlin University of the Arts. She undertook her doctoral studies at the European Graduate School in Switzerland in philosophy, art and critical thought, and at the University of Plymouth in England in transdisciplinary studies (as part of the EU Marie Curie initiative CogNovo), specialising in media and technology ethics.

At the OII, she works on critically mapping infrastructural challenges towards trustworthy AI.

Positions at the OII

• Visiting Research Fellow, January 2026 -