Judith Simon

Born in 1977

Professional Background

• Since 2017 Full Professor for Ethics in Information Technologies, University of Hamburg, Germany
• 2019-2020 Visiting Professor at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• 2014-2017 Associate Professor (tenured) for Philosophy of Science and Technology at the IT University Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2011-2016 Principal Investigator of the Austrian Science Fund Project "Epistemic Trust in Socio-Technical Epistemic Systems" at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria
• 2013 Visiting Scholar at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (CSIC-IIIA) in Barcelona (Spain)
• 2011-2014 Senior Researcher at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis
• 2010-2011 Visiting Scholar at the University of Trento, Italy
• 2010 Visiting Scholar at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (CSIC-IIIA) in Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 PhD in Philosophy (summa cum laude) at the University of Vienna, Austria
• 2009-2011  Research Fellow at the Jean Nicod Institute, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France
• 2008 Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, USA
• 2007 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• 2005-2009 Research Assistant at the Research Group "Philosophy of Science: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge", Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria
• 2003-2005 Research Assistant of the Research Center Juelich at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Research Group Bioethics & Science Communication in Berlin
• 1996-2002 Studies in Psychology, Philosophy, English and German Language and Literature as well as Media Studies in Berlin, Marburg and Waterloo, Canada; Master in Psychology at the Free University of Berlin

Memberships

• Since 2018 Member of the German Ethics Council
• Since 2019 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Munich Institute for Technology in Society at the Technical University of Munich
• Since 2019 Member of the working group on digitisation and democracy at the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• Since 2019 Member of the Standing Committee "Digital Society" of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
• 2018-2019 Member of the Commission on Data Ethics of the Federal Government of Germany
• 2018-2019 Member of the Expert Commission "Science in the Digital Age" of the German Research Foundation
• Since 2018 Member of the Joint Committee of German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the German Research Foundation on the Handling of Security-Relevant Research
• Since 2018 Member of the Working Group "IT Security, Privacy, Ethical and Legal Frameworks" of the Plattform Lernende Systeme
• Since 2017 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Digital Ethics at the Stuttgart Media University
• Since 2017 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy at the University of Düsseldorf
• 2016 Member of the "Advisory Group on Societal Challenge 6" of the European Commission, development of the work programme 2018-2020 for Horizon 2020
• Since 2014 Member of the Executive Board of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy
• Since 2014 Member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Ethics in Information Technology
• 2011-2012 Member of the Onlife Initiative of the European Commission
• Member of the Editorial Executive Board of the journal Philosophy & Technology and Member of the Advisory Board of the journal Big Data & Society

Awards

• 2013 Herbert A. Simon Award for outstanding research in the field of Philosophy and Computing, awarded by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy

Publications (Selection)

• Rieder, G.; Simon, J.; Wong, P.-H. (forthcoming): Mapping the stony road towards trustworthy AI: expectations, problems, conundrums. In: Pelillo, M.; Scantamburlo, T. (ed.): Machines We Trust. Cambridge [USA].
• Wong, P.-H.; Simon, J. (2020): Thinking about 'ethics' in the ethics of AI. In: IDEES, revistaidees.cat/en/thinking-aboutethics-in-the-ethics-of-ai/ [26.05.2020].
• Simon, J. (2020): The Routledge Handbook of Trust and Philosophy. New York.
• Simon, J. (2017): Values in design and responsible innovation. In: Hansson, S. O. (ed.): Methods for the Ethics of Technology. London.
• Simon, J.; Rieder, G. (2017): Big data. A new empiricism and its epistemic and socio-political consequences. In: Ott, M.; Pietsch, W.; Wernecke, J. (ed.): Berechenbarkeit der Welt? Philosophie und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter von Big Data. Wiesbaden.
• Rieder, G.; Simon, J. (2017): Big data and technology assessment: research topic or competitor? In: Journal of Responsible Innovation, 4 (2), 234-253.
• Rieder, G.; Simon, J. (2016): Datatrust: Or, the political quest for numerical evidence and the epistemologies of big data. In: Big Data & Society, 3 (1), 1-6.
• Simon, J. (2013): Trust. In: Pritchard, D. (ed.): Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. New York.