Prof. Dr. Mark Coeckelbergh is a Professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and was recently Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Education. He also holds an ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and serves as a Guest Professor at WASP-HS and Uppsala University. Previously, he was President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT).
Prof. Coeckelbergh’s expertise lies in ethics and technology, particularly in robotics and artificial intelligence. He is an active member of policy-building organizations, including the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence, the Austrian UNESCO Commission’s Expert Council on AI Ethics, the Austrian Council on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and the Austrian Advisory Council on Automated Mobility. He also serves on the advisory board of the University of Milan’s Research Center on the Philosophy of Technology (PhilTech@UNIMI) and is on the editorial board of Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance.
An author of 17 philosophy books and numerous articles, Prof. Coeckelbergh is involved in multiple national and European research projects on AI and robotics.