Vera Borrmann is a researcher at the Human-Technology Interaction Lab, Medical Center – University of Freiburg.
Contact:
Human-Technology Interaction Lab
Department of Neurosurgery,
Medical Center – University of Freiburg
Engelbergerstraße 21, D-79106 Freiburg im Breisgau
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Research Interests and Biography
Her main interests and research field are the body, embodiment, self, and perception in the context of phenomenology, deconstruction, and Artistic Research, as well as in an intercultural perspective. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary discourses and in bringing her methodological approaches together working on the topics of empathy, embodied emotion, and creativity.
She studied European Studies at KIT Karlsruhe and at Universidade de Coimbra as well as philosophy at University of Vienna and worked in various projects on topics like human enhancement, the lived body, body modification, trans- and posthumanism, future bodies, synthetic biology and new emerging technologies at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (KIT) in Karlsruhe, the Institute for Technology Assessment (OEAW) in Vienna and was a research associate in the project Agency and Neurotechnology of the Saltus! Group Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
