Visiting Scholars
STS Visiting Scholars
The Program in Science, Technology, and Society hosts a limited number of visiting scholars. While in residence, visiting scholars have access to the rich resources at Stanford University Libraries and are invited to participate in the vibrant intellectual community of Stanford faculty, students, and researchers, as well as the STS Lectures, which showcases cutting-edge work by scholars from Science & Technology Studies.
Iris Eisenberger
HOME INSTITUTION: University of Vienna
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2024-February 2025
Iris Eisenberger is Professor of Innovation and Public Law and Deputy Head of the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna. Her research focuses on innovation and technology law, the protection of fundamental and human rights and the intersection of law, innovation and society. She has wide experience in interdisciplinary research as well as in conducting nationally and internationally funded research projects. She has published in journals such as Law, Innovation and Technology; Oxford Journal of Legal Studies; Computer Law and Security Review; and Nature Nanotechnology. See Iris' Stanford Profile
Post-doctoral Fellow, SERI
In collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI), STS hosts postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars in various fields with a research and teaching focus on mitigating existential or global catastrophic risks. Visiting scholars and postdocs teach STS courses on existential risk reduction, pursue independent research agendas, and collaborate with and contribute to SERI programming. Under the guidance of the initiative's faculty directors, Dr. Steve Luby and Dr. Paul Edwards, SERI aims to provide skill-building, networking, professional pathways, and community for students and faculty interested in existential risk reduction.
Anna-Katharina Ferl
DATES IN RESIDENCE: September 2024-June 2026
Anna worked as a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and completed her PhD in Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt. During her doctoral studies, she was a research fellow at the German Federal Foreign Office, Cornell University, and the University of Southern Denmark. Anna has also conducted field research at the United Nations in Geneva.
Anna’s research focuses on the intersection between politics, international security, and technology, specifically on military applications of AI and autonomy. She is interested in how these technological developments shape human-machine relations and how they change understandings of the human role in future warfare. This also influences how AI technologies can be politically regulated and governed. Her current role at Stanford is Post-doctoral Fellow, affiliated with the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI) at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). See Anna's Stanford Profile