Vera Borrmann is a researcher of the SALTUS! Group Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg.
Contact:
Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Albertstraße 19
79104 Freiburg i.B (Germany)
Phone: +49 (0)761 203 97404
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 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 is currently a research associate in the project Agency and Neurotechnology of the Saltus! Group Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
