Directorate
PAIR Director − Prof. Vincent C. Müller
Vincent Müller is AvH Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (6 post-docs, 6 pre-docs) – as well as Visiting Professor at TU Eindhoven, President of the European Society for Cognitive Systems, Chair of the Society for the Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the euRobotics topics group on ‘ethical, legal and socio-economic issues’. Previously, he was Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2019-22) and at Anatolia College/ACT in Thessaloniki (1998-2019), Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London (2018-22), University Academic Fellow at the University of Leeds (2016-22), James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-15) and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2005-6). Müller studied philosophy with cognitive science, linguistics and history at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London and Oxford.
Director of Research − PD Dr. Sascha Benjamin Fink
Before joining PAIR as Director of Research, Sascha Benjamin Fink was Juniorprofessor for Neurophilosophy at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, where he still is a member of the Centre for Behavioral Brain Sciences. His work focuses on foundational issues of the empirical mind sciences as well as structural approaches to consciousness, transformative experiences, sensory engineering, and epistemic risks. Currently, he is an editor-in-chief of the diamond open-access journal “Philosophy and the Mind Sciences”, funded by the DFG, and is involved in four other projects as a PI, namely on psychedelics (PsychedELSI and PsyTrans), sensory engineering (SENSOR) and pain (COMPAIN). He is also an Affiliate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experiences and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
Assistant Director of Research − Miriam Gorr
Miriam’s research explores the moral status of the intersection between AI systems, humans, and animals. For her Ph.D. project, she developed an interest-based framework for determining the moral status of intelligent machines. She is also contributing to the K3I-Cycling project by examining the ethical opportunities and challenges of AI-driven recycling systems.
As Assistant Director of Research, Miriam coordinates the PAIR Visiting Fellowships, organizes the weekly Research Seminar, and supports PAIR members in realizing their projects and events.
Team Assistant
Senem Erhun (on site 9-13:00)
Research Assistant
Eleftheria Tsouika (on site 9-13:00)