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Technical University of Munich

M.A. Svenja Breuer

Doctoral candidate

Science and Technology Policy

Svenja Breuer is research associate and doctoral candidate at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University Munich (TUM). Since 2020, she is part of the Science and Technology Policy research group and the bidt Research Project Responsible Robotics and AI in Healthcare. Her PhD research focuses on imaginaries of robotics and AI, in both public policy and technology development practice.

Previously, she completed her Bachelor’s in Management of Social Innovation at the University of Applied Sciences Munich and her Master’s in Science and Technology Studies at TUM. During her Master’s, she worked at the Friedrich Schiedel Endowed Chair in Sociology of Science as part of the DFG Research Group “Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice“.

  • Willem, T., Fritzsche, M.-C., Zimmermann, B. M., Sierawska, A., Breuer, S., Braun, M., Ruess, A. K., Bak, M., Schönweitz, F., Meier, L. J., Fiske, A., Tigard, D., Müller, R., McLennan, S. y Buyx, A. (2025). Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research. Science and Engineering Ethics, 31(3), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00523-y
  • Breuer, S., Witz, S., Skerlj, J., Braun, M., Bak, M., Naceri, A., Tigard, D., Haddadin, S., Buyx, A., Eisenberger, I. & Müller, R. (2024). Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: The role of peer-to-peer relationships. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2426854
  • Tigard, D. W., Braun, M., Breuer, S., Fiske, A., McLennan, S. & Buyx, A. (2024). Embedded Ethics and the “Soft Impacts” of Technology. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, Artículo 02704676241298162. Publicación en línea avanzada. https://doi.org/10.1177/02704676241298162
  • Breuer, S. & Müller, R. (2024). Digitalization, AI, and robotics for good care and work? German policy imaginaries of healthcare technologies. Science and Public Policy(00), Artículo scae036, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scae036
  • Meissen, F., Breuer, S., Knolle, M., Buyx, A., Müller, R., Kaissis, G., Wiestler, B. & Rückert, D. (2024). (Predictable) performance bias in unsupervised anomaly detection. EBioMedicine, 101, 105002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105002
  • Breuer, S. & Penkler, M. (2024). Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion: Producing Opinions in Public Engagement. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 49(6), Artículo 01622439241251525, 1281–1308. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439241251525
  • Tigard, D. W., Braun, M., Breuer, S., Ritt, K., Fiske, A., McLennan, S. & Buyx, A. (2023). Toward best practices in embedded ethics: Suggestions for interdisciplinary technology development. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 167, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2023.104467
  • Skerlj, J., Braun, M., Witz, S., Breuer, S., Bak, M., Scholz, S., Naceri, A., Müller, R., Haddadin, S. & Eisenberger, I. (2023, junio - 2023, junio). Data Recording for Responsible Robotics. En 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO) (pp. 103–109). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187414
  • Jörg, S., Ziethmann, P. & Breuer, S. (2023). MedAIcine: A Pilot Project on the Social and Ethical Aspects of AI in Medical Imaging. En C. Stephanidis, M. Antona, S. Ntoa y G. Salvendy (Eds.), Communications in Computer and Information Science. HCI INTERNATIONAL 2023 POSTERS: 25th international conference on (Vol. 1832, pp. 455–462). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35989-7_58
  • Braun, M., Breuer, S., Tigard, D. & Müller, R. (2022). ”Embedded Ethics and Social Sciences” in HRI Research: Scenarios and Subjectivities. Proceedings of the HRI2022 Workshop Re-Configuring Human-Robot Interaction, 1–4. https://medien.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/reconfig-hri/files/2022/03/02_Braun.pdf
  • Breuer, S., Braun, M., Ritt, K. & Tigard, D. (2021). Embedding Ethics and Social Science Into Telemedicine Research, Development, and Implementation. Proceedings of the CHI2021 Workshop Realizing AI in Healthcare: Challenges in the Wild. http://francisconunes.me/RealizingAIinHealthcareWS/papers/Breuer2021.pdf

  • Immersion Project: Gene Editing in Media Discourse (WS 2020/2021)
  • Herausforderungen der Biomedizin (SS 2021)
  • Immersion Project: Responsible Robotics & AI (WS 2021/2022)

  • Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
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