Angelie Kraft appointed research group leader at the Weizenbaum Institute

Angelie Kraft is an interdisciplinary researcher in the areas of natural language processing (NLP) and AI ethics with a training in computer science and psychology. Her work is concerned with a critical analysis of AI, as well as the assumptions and norms that guide the research processes within the AI community. At the Weizenbaum Institute, she will focus in particular on open science practices in AI research and the opportunities and challenges associated with them. Previously, she was a research associate at Leuphana University Lüneburg, where she contributed to the DFG project National Research Data Infrastructure for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DS).

Angelie’s work has been published at internationally renowned conferences such as the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) and the Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP). She is frequently invited as a speaker to talk about AI and AI ethics, for example at the COMPTEXT Conference 2025 and the conference of the German Informatics Society (GI) Women and Computer Science Group 2024. 

Her Weizenbaum research group, Digitalization and Opening up Science, investigates technologies that enable the secure and reliable support of digital processes, such as those used in process automation or automated process monitoring. The group focuses on processes within businesses and public administrations and examines the tension between transparency and controllability, as well as issues related to the loss of privacy and creativity.