In the coming years, I wish to conduct research into the relevance of certain 'schools' and insights from continental philosophy, more specifically the Frankfurt School and its critical theory (e.g. Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Byung-Chul Han, Nancy Fraser), and phenomenology (e.g. Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, Sarah Ahmed, Linda Martin Alcoff, Iris Marion Young), for specific issues at the intersections of political philosophy, social philosophy, bioethics and global ethics.

My primary aim is to bring insights from the Frankfurt School and recent debates on critical theory into dialogue with philosophical analyses of digitisation, robotisation, automation and Artificial Intelligence and their social impact.

Moreover, I want to examine the phenomenological thinkers mentioned above mainly in light of themes from (global) (feminist) bioethics, with a particular focus on the ‘cognitive’ dimensions of emotions and their role in the analysis of such themes.