Assistant Professor, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge

Dr Inga Ulnicane has more than 20 years of interdisciplinary and international experience of research, teaching and leadership. Her expertise lies at the intersection of policy analysis, political science, and social studies of science and technology. She has published extensively on topics such as politics and policy of Artificial Intelligence, governance of emerging technologies, Grand Challenges, and Responsible Innovation. In addition to academic research, she has prepared commissioned reports for the European Parliament and European Commission and collaborated with stakeholders such as the European Trade Union Institute.

She has developed and taught a range of graduate and undergraduate courses on topics such as policy analysis, science and technology governance, and knowledge-based society, and provided training on Responsible Research and Innovation, ethics, and dual use.

Her international leadership experience includes chairing a project-wide Dual Use Working Group in the EU-funded Human Brain Project, one of the biggest international research collaborations ever. In this role, Dr. Ulnicane led innovative work on applying the Responsible Research and Innovation approach to identifying and tackling potential dual use of concern and misuse issues. This work has attracted interest from a range of global stakeholders and been featured in the OECD Neurotechnology Toolkit.

She has previously worked at universities of Birmingham (UK), De Montfort (UK), Vienna (Austria), Twente (Netherlands), Latvia and Latvian Academy of Sciences and has been visiting researcher at universities of Melbourne (Australia), Manchester (UK) and Georgia Tech (US).

Areas of expertise:

• AI policy and politics
• Bias and intersectionality in AI
• Governance of emerging technologies
• Science, technology and innovation policy
• Responsible Research and Innovation
• European integration in research and innovation
• Dual use and misuse