Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. Orsolya Friedrich

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E-Mail: orsolya.friedrich

Telefon: +49 2331 987-4122

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Orsolya Friedrich studied and received her doctorate in philosophy and medicine. After a doctoral fellowship (DFG) at the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW) in Tübingen, she worked at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies at the LMU Munich and at the Institute for Ethics in the Neurosciences, Research Center Jülich. From 2011 to 2019 she was research associate and academic councillor at the Institute for Ethics, History and Theory (EGT) of Medicine and lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies, LMU Munich.
At the Institute for EGT of Medicine she headed the research area "Philosophical Foundations of Medical Ethics" and between 2016-2019 the international joint project "Interfaces" (BMBF). This interdisciplinary research group investigated the philosophical-ethical, legal and social implications of brain-computer interfaces (www.bci-ethics.de).
Since 2018 she is a deputy member of the Bavarian Ethics Commission for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnostics for the field of ethics.
Since summer 2019 she heads an Emmy Noether-Research Group (DFG), which works on conceptualizing and evaluating the phenomenon of interaction in human-machine interactions, its qualitative innovations and their consequences for individuals and society. The project also has a strong focus on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI).

List of publications (PDF 197 KB)

Areas of her research interests

• Philosophy/Ethics of technology (in particular AI, neurotechnology and human-machine interactions)
• Medical ethics
• Neuroethics, ethics of psychiatry and psychotherapy
• Ethics
• Metaethics

• Lecture Series „Medicine and Technology“ and Workshops

  Lecture Series "Medicine and Technology"

  April 3rd, 2023: Care robotics
  (with Prof. Dr. Elisabeth André, University Augsburg; Kim Klüber, Humboldt University of Berlin; Dr. Peter Remmers, TU Berlin)

  February 1st, 2023: Affective Computing
  (with Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn, GAU Göttingen; Prof. Dr. Anna Tuschling, RU Bochum)

  December 14th, 2022: Self-Tracking Technology
  (with Prof. Dr. Doreen Reifegerste, University Bielefeld; Dr. Lisa Wiedemann, HSU Hamburg; Prof. Dr. Verina Wild, University Augsburg)

  November 16th, 2022: Medicine and Technology
  (with Dr. Melike Şahinol, Orient Institut Istanbul; Dr. Wenke Liedtke, EVH Bochum)

  July 13th, 2022: Explainable AI
  (with Bettina Finzel, OFU Bamberg; PD Dr. Hans-Joachim Greif, Warsaw University of Technology; Dr. Lisa Käde, KIT)

  May 5th, 2022: AI and Embodiment
  (with Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner, University Paderborn; Prof. Dr. Christina Schües, Lübeck Universität; Prof. Dr. Bettina Wuttig, PU Marburg)

  March 31st, 2022: AI and Gender
  (with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Corinna Bath, TU Braunschweig; Dr. Waltraud Ernst, JKU Linz; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Irina Gradinari, FernUniversität in Hagen)

  January 27th, 2022: AI in Care Robotics
  (with Prof. Dr. Arne Manzeschke, Lutheran University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg; Prof. Dr. Jochen Steil, TU Braunschweig)

  November 18th, 2021: Experience and Memory
  (with Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Heidelberg; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kristina Liefke, Bochum; Jun.-Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann, Bochum)

  July 14th, 2021: AI in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  (with Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris, LMU Munich; Prof. Dr. Mark Schweda, COU Oldenburg; Prof. Dr. Eva Weber-Guskar, RU Bochum; Dr. Wanja Wiese, JGU Mainz)

  June 23rd, 2021: AI in Neurotechnology
  (with Dr. Christoph Bublitz, University of Hamburg; Dr. Philipp Kellmeyer, ALU Freiburg; Prof. Dr. Thorsten O. Zander, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)

  Januar 28th, 2021: Human and Machine Intelligence (mit Prof. Dr. Vincent C. Müller, TU Eindhoven; Prof. Dr. Markus Paulus, LMU Munich; Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober, OVGU Magdeburg)

  November 19th, 2020: AI in Medical Robotics (with Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland; Prof. Dr. Manfred Hild, Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin; Dr. Janina Loh, University of Wien)

  November 5th, 2020: AI in Medical Imaging (with Prof. Dr. Bert Heinrichs, RFWU Bonn; Dr. Rainer Mühlhoff, TU Berlin; Prof. Dr. Daniel Rückert, TU Munich)

  Workshops

  30th June - 1st July, 2022 in Munich: Neurotechnology Meets Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications

  April 21st - 23rd, 2021: (Unintended) Information in Human-Machine Interaction - Implications on the Individual and Societal Level

  March 4th - 5th, 2021: On Humans and Machines - Human-Machine Interactions in digital_cultures

  Further dates to follow

Postal Address / Postanschrift