Ulla Wessels is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Saarland University. She works in several areas of practical philosophy, mainly in theoretical and applied ethics: on practical reasoning, welfare, the value of life and societal desiderata for intelligent systems.

Lena Kästner is Professor of Philosophy, Informatics, and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bayreuth. She works in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Her background is in cognitive science and neuroscience. Her main research foci are scientific explanations and discovery, causation and causal reasoning, models of mental disorders, and explainable AI.

Sarah Sterz is a computer scientist (B.Sc.) and philosopher (M.A.). Her research interests include decision theory, rationality, and ethics (especially computer ethics), but also logic, argumentation theory, and philosophy of language. Sarah’s PhD-project is about the normativity of rationality.

Thorsten Helfer is a philosopher (M.A.). His research interests include theories of well-being, ethics, rationality and normativity in general, but he has also a keen interest in logic and argumentation theory.
Thorsten’s PhD-project is about the concept of desires and theories of well-being.

Andreas Sesing is a lawyer and research associate at the Institute for Legal Informatics at Saarland University. His research area is civil law, his special research interests include in particular the legal handling of new technologies – both with regard to the application of the law and to further regulation.

Holger Hermanns is Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University. His research interests include perspicuous computing systems and proactive algorithmic accountability, as well as modelling and verification, energy informatics and space informatics.

Kevin Baum is a philosopher (M.A.) and computer scientist (M.Sc.). His research interests are normative ethics, applied ethics (especially computer ethics), and logic. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy on the problem of collective action for act-consequentialism, and in computer science on the connection between machine explainability and machine ethics.

Sarah Sterz is a computer scientist (B.Sc.) and philosopher (M.A.). Her research interests include decision theory, rationality, and ethics (especially computer ethics), but also logic, argumentation theory, and philosophy of language. Sarah’s PhD-project is about the normativity of rationality.

Hanwei Zhang is a computer scientist. Her research interests mainly focus on trustworthy AI, which involves deep learning, image processing, and optimization under the context of interpretability, fairness, security, adversarial attack, and defense.

Dr. Markus Langer is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist with an interdisciplinary focus on the areas of psychology and computer science. His research interests cover the relation of humans and artificial intelligence in contexts such as human resource management or medicine, explainable AI, trust in AI, and hybrid human-AI decision making.

Veronika Lazar graduated in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (M.Sc.). Her research interests include human-AI interaction, explainability of artificial intelligence and effects of explainability approaches but also trust in AI and reactions to algorithm-based decision making.

Felix Kares graduated in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (M.Sc.). His research interests include human-AI interaction, explainability of artificial intelligence, trust in AI as well as antecedents of and reactions to algorithm-based decision-making in high-stakes contexts such as HR, politics or medicine.