About Us

In our view, tackling data ethics requires transcending disciplinary boundaries, bintegrating approaches, knowledge, and perspectives from many disciplines. Our group currently has background in cultural anthropology, economics, education, mathematics, social sciences, survey methodology, as well as statistics, data science, and machine learning – which, however, still represent only a subset of the discplines contributing to the study of data ethics.

We are open to new members. It is, of course, also possible to become involved in a single of our projects – you don't have to become involved in all projects: for instance, you may be interested in our journal club that will start in the fall of 2025.

We welcome exchange with other groups. Please get in contact with us.

Current Members (in alphabetical order)

Andreas Dimmelmeier, PostDoc in "Green Data, Indicators, Algorithms: Connecting Green Finance and Smart Cities",
Social Data Science and AI Lab, LMU Munich

Frederic Gerdon, PostDoc in "Consequences of AI-Based Decision Making for Urban Societies", MZES & University of Mannheim

Markus Herklotz,  PhD Candidate, Social Data Science and AI Lab, LMU Munich, and BERD@NFDI

Moritz Herrmann, Postdoc at the Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology, LMU Munich, and Reproducibility and Open Science Transfer Coordinator at the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML)

Olga Kononykhina, PhD Candidate, Social Data Science and AI Lab, LMU Munich, and MCML

Walter Radermacher, (Honorary) Professor of Statistics, LMU Munich, Chair Advisory Board on Ethics of the International Statistical Institute, and Vice-President Federation of European National Statistical Societies; formerly President of the German Statistical Office (destatis), Director General of Eurostat, and Chief Statistician of the European Union 

Patrick Oliver Schenk, PhD Candidate, Social Data Science and AI Lab, LMU Munich, and MCML

Felicitas Sommer, PostDoc, Project lead of "Green Data, Indicators, Algorithms: Connecting Green Finance and Smart Cities", Technical University of Munich