Aimee van Wynsberghe promoted to associate professor

Aimee van Wynsberghe has been promoted to (tenured) Associate Professor in Ethics and Technology at the department of VTI. Aimee's research focuses on the ethics of designing and implementing robotics and AI. She is the director of the TPM AI-lab and has been working in ICT and robotics since 2004. Aimee began her career as part of a research team working with surgical robots in Canada at CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advance Robotics). She is co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and on the board of the Institute for Accountability in a Digital Age. She is a 2018 L'Oreal Unesco 'For Women in Science' Netherlands laureate. Aimee also serves as a member of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on AI and is a founding board member of the Netherlands AI Alliance. Aimee has been named one of the Netherlands top 400 influential women under 38 by VIVA twice and was named one of the 25 ‘women in robotics you need to know about’. She is author of the book Healthcare Robots: Ethics, Design, and Implementation and has been awarded an NWO personal research grant to study how we can responsibly design service robots. She has been interviewed by BBC, Quartz, Financial Times, Forbes and other International news media on the topic of ethics and robots, and is often invited to speak at International conferences and summits.