Visiting professor Justyna Stypinska
About
Justyna Stypińska is a sociologist with research interests in various forms of algorithmic discrimination and bias in AI technologies and in how these create new dimensions of social and economic inequalities in late capitalism. Currently, she holds a position as Dorothea Erxleben Visiting Professor at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
At the WZB, she works as principal investigator of the Volkswagen Foundation–funded international research project “AI Ageism: New Forms of Age Discrimination and Exclusion in the Era of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence.” The interdisciplinary project examines the impacts of the use of AI technologies on ageing populations in Europe from a sociotechnical perspective
Positions
Associate Researcher, Research Group: Working with AI (October 2025 - October 2027)
Former Research Fellow, Research Group: Working with AI (01.11.2022 - 31.12.2022)
Fields of Research
Justyna Stypińska conducts research on:
- AI bias
- Inclusive AI
- Discrimination in AI
- Critical Algorithm Studies