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Technische Universität München

M.A. Svenja Breuer

Doktorandin

Wissenschafts- und Technologiepolitik

Svenja Breuer ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin am Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) an der Technischen Universität München (TUM). Seit 2020 ist sie Teil der Forschungsgruppe Wissenschafts- und Technologiepolitik und des bidt Forschungsprojekts “Responsible Robotics and AI in Healthcare”. Ihre Forschung im Rahmen ihrer Promotion konzentriert sich auf Vorstellungen (imaginaries) von Robotik und Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI), sowohl in der öffentlichen Politik als auch in der Praxis der Technologieentwicklung.

Zuvor absolvierte sie ihren Bachelor in Management Sozialer Innovationen an der Hochschule München und ihren Master in Science and Technology Studies an der TUM. Während ihres Masterstudiums arbeitete sie am Friedrich Schiedel Stiftungslehrstuhl für Wissenschaftssoziologie im Rahmen der DFG-Forschergruppe „Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice“.

  • Imaginaries of healthcare technologies
  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Embedded Ethics and Social Science 

laufende Projekte

abgeschlossene Projekte 

  • Willem, T., Fritzsche, M.-C., Zimmermann, B. M. and Sierawska, A., Breuer, S. et al. (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. and Braun, M., Bak, M., Naceri, A., Tigard, D. W., Haddadin, S., Buyx, A., Müller, R. (2024) “Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into Practice: The Role of Peer-to-Peer Relationships”, Journal of Responsible Innovation. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2426854.
  • Tigard, D. W., Braun, M., Breuer, S., Fiske, A., McLennan, Stuart, Buyx, A. (2024) ‘Embedded Ethics and the “Soft Impacts” of Technology‘, Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society.
  • Breuer, S., and Müller, R. (2024). “Digitalization, AI, and Robotics for Good Care and Work? German Policy Imaginaries of Healthcare Technologies.” Science and Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scae036 
  • Breuer, S., and Penkler, M. (2024). “Between Open Deliberation and the Capturing of Public Opinion: Producing Opinions in Public Engagement.” Science, Technology, & Human Values, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439241251525
  • Meissen, F.; Breuer, S.; Knolle, M.; Buyx, A.; Müller, R.; Kaissis, G.; Wiestler, B; and Rückert, D. (2024). “(Predictable) Performance Bias in Unsupervised Anomaly Detection.” EBioMedicine 101:105002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105002 
  • Tigard, D. W.; Braun, M.; Breuer, S.; Ritt, K.; Fiske, A.; McLennan, S.; and Buyx, A. (2023). “Toward Best Practices in Embedded Ethics: Suggestions for Interdisciplinary Technology Development.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems 167:104467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2023.104467 
  • Jörg, S.; Ziethmann, P.; Breuer, S. (2023). “MedAIcine: A Pilot Project on the Social and Ethical Aspects of AI in Medical Imaging.” In HCI INTERNATIONAL 2023 POSTERS: 25th International Conference. Vol. 1832, edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona, Stavroula Ntoa, and Gavriel Salvendy, 455–62. Communications in Computer and Information Science. [S.l.]: Springer. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35989-7_58
  • Skerlj, J., Braun, M., Witz, S.; Breuer, S.; Bak, M.; Scholz, S.; Naceri, A.; Müller, R.; Haddadin, S.; and Eisenberger, I. (2023). “Data Recording for Responsible Robotics.” In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO), 103–9. https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO56563.2023.10187414
  • Breuer, S.; Braun, M., Tigard, D.; Buyx, A., and Müller, R. (2023). “How Engineers’ Imaginaries of Healthcare Shape Design and User Engagement: A Case Study of a Robotics Initiative for Geriatric Healthcare AI Applications.” In Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (TOCHI). https://doi.org/10.1145/3577010 

  • “STS 1: Practices and Politics of Science and Technology”, Winter semester  2025/2026. 

  • Robotics in and with Society: Embedding Social Science Perspectives (SS 2025) 

  • Understanding Society (WS2024/2025)  

  • STS-STEM Mentorship: Informatics – AI – Data Science (SS 2024) 

  • Project Week: Responsible Robotics (RR-AI) (WS 2022/2023) 

  • Immersion Project: Collaborating Responsibly in Robotics & AI Research (WS 2022/2023) 

  • Responsibility for Environment and Health. Social and Cultural Perspectives on Environment, Health, Science, and Technology (SS 2022) 

  • Immersion Project: Responsible Robotics & AI (WS 2021/2022) 

  • Herausforderungen der Biomedizin (engl. Challenges of Biomedicine) (SS 2021) 

  • Immersion Project: Gene Editing in Media Discourse (WS 2020/2021) 

  • Embedded Ethics and Social Science
  • Social and ethical aspects of healthcare AI and robotics 

  • Digitalization, AI, and Robotics for Good Care and Work? German Policy Imaginaries of Healthcare Technologies, 09-Jan-2025, MA Course Making a Mess with Methods, STS Department, TUM
  • Responsible Robotics and AI for Healthcare, 13-May-2024, Seminar Biomedicine, Health & Society: Between Empowerment & Control, STS Department, TUM
  • Imaginaries of Healthcare Robotics, 22-May-2024, Lecture Series Responsibility for Environment and Health, School of Management, TUM
  • How Engineers’ Imaginaries of AI Shape Design and User Engagement, PhD Seminar Designing Human-Centred AI in Healthcare, 04-Apr-2024, University of Copenhagen
  • How Engineers Understandings of Healthcare Shape Robotics Research, Panel on Epistemologies of AI, 10-Jan-2024, NYU
  • Imaginaries of Healthcare Robotics, 17-May-2023, Lecture Series Responsibility for Environment and Health, TUM School of Management, TUM
  • Ethical, Legal, and Social Aspects in Robotics, TUM-Beijing University of Technology Exchange, 08-Feb-2023, TUM
  • Embedding Ethics in a German healthcare robotics and AI research initiative (with Maximilian Braun), iHuman Seminar Series, 16-May-2023, University of Sheffield
  • Embedded Ethics and Social Science in Responsible Robotics, 28-Sept-2022, Skydeck Spectrum, Deutsche Bahn AG
  • Responsible Robotics, 26-Jan-2022, Lecture Series of the STS Department, TUM
  • Responsible Robotics and the Ethics of Robots in Nursing, 14-Oct-2021, Schwesternschule Rotkreuzklinikum, Munich
  • Responsible Robotics (RR-AI) Working with Embedded Ethics and Social Science (with Maximilian Braun and Daniel Tigard), Ethical and Trustworthy Artificial and Machine Intelligence (ETAMI) reading circle, 16-Apr-2021, ETAMI, online 

  • STSing e.V. (board member: co-chair 2025-2027)
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
  • Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 
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