Biography

Georg Starke is a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Humanities at EPFL, working in the Intelligent Systems Ethics Group. Trained as philosopher and physician, he conducts research at the intersection of AI ethics, medical ethics, and neuroscience. His current work on the Hybrid Minds project focuses on AI-based neurotechnology, relating fundamental philosophical and ethical questions to empirical work in the field. 

Georg studied medicine in Munich with clinical electives in Oxford, Buenos Aires, and Jerusalem and completed his medical doctorate at the TU Munich with a thesis on neural correlates of human fear. In parallel, he obtained a BA in philosophy at the Munich School of Philosophy and an MPhil in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. After receiving his medical license, he worked as reserch assistant at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the Univesity of Basel, examining the notion of trust in medical AI. He finished his PhD with summa cum laude in 2022.

Georg received scholarships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Max Weber Programme and the HPS Trust Fund of the University of Cambridge. His work received international awards, among them the Paul Schotsmans Prize from the European Association of Centers for Medical Ethics, and he was granted two research residencies at the Fondation Brocher in Switzerland. In parallel to his appointment at EPFL, Georg holds appointments as postdoc at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich and as lecturer for medical ethics at the Munich School of Philosophy.