Dr Christine Aicardi

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

Sociology

Contact details

christine.aicardi@kcl.ac.uk

Biography

Christine Aicardi originally trained in applied mathematics, computer sciences and project management, receiving a MEng from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris in 1987.

She worked for many years in the Information and Communication Technologies industry, before returning to higher education as a mature student.

Christine received her MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology from Imperial College in London in 2005 and her PhD in Science and Technology Studies at University College London in 2010.

She was a Wellcome Trust Library fellow at UCL researching the contemporary history of neuroscience, before joining the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine in 2014.

She was Senior Research Fellow in the Human Brain Project Foresight Laboratory until 2020, and is currently Responsible Research & Innovation Lead for the Centres for Doctoral Training in Safe & Trusted AI and in Smart Medical Imaging.

Research

Neuroscience, neuro- and brain-inspired technology
Futures studies
Research infrastructures
Collaborative practices
Responsible research and innovation

Christine’s research interests include social, futures, and contemporary history studies of artificial intelligence broadly understood (autonomous, adaptive, evolutionary and intelligent systems; brain-inspired computing; robotics), neurotechnology and computational neuroscience.

She aims to trace some of their entwined genealogies and to situate them within wider sociotechnical systems and imaginaries, in order to understand their import for society.

She also has a special interest in the development of collaborative methods for engaging scientists, engineers, diverse publics and communities, in practices of responsible research and innovation for future and emerging technologies. Finally, she is interested in social studies of research collaborations and research infrastructures.

Teaching

7SSHM623 Social and Ethical Implications of AI, Big Data and Algorithms

Further details

See Christine's research profile

Research

Mental Health & Society research group

Seeking to better understand the socio-political dimensions of mental health and illness in the Global North and South.

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Biotechnology & Society research group

Addressing the social, ethical and legal questions arising from developments in health and biomedicine using a multidisciplinary research approach.

The Human Brain Project: The Foresight Lab

Building a completely new ICT infrastructure for neuroscience and understanding the human brain and its diseases to emulate its computational capabilities.

Project status: Ongoing