Biography

Dr. Georg Starke is a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Humanities at EPFL, working in the Intelligent Systems Ethics Group. As member of the Hybrid Minds project, Georg’s research examines the ethics of using artificial intelligence in medicine, with particular regard to neurological and psychiatric applications. Beyond AI ethics, Georg is also interested in history and philosophy of science, philosophy of psychiatry, medical ethics, and questions at the intersection of philosophy of mind and comparative psychology.

Georg has been trained in medicine and in philosophy, concluding both studies with a respective doctoral degree. He studied medicine at the Technical University of Munich and was visiting student at the University of Buenos Aires, the Hebrew University Jerusalem, and the University of Oxford. His medical doctoral thesis investigated subcortical correlates of social fear, using model-based fMRI. In parallel to his medical studies, Georg obtained a BA in philosophy from the Munich School of Philosophy and an MPhil in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine from the University of Cambridge. His PhD in bioethics at the University of Basel, defended in 2022, shed light on the notion of trust in medical AI and scrutinized the trustworthiness of clinical AI appliances with particular view to fairness and explainability.