Jana Sedlakova is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral researcher bringing methods and insights from philosophy and ethics into other disciplines and interdisciplinary projects, mainly at the intersection of data science, health research, and sustainability. I am interested in questions of how current changes in science such as technological innovations are changing our epistemic practices and what requirements are needed to ensure responsible and rigorous research.

She obtained a PhD from the Institute of Biomedical Ethics of the University of Zurich. In 2022, she joined a complementary PhD Program “DSI Excellence PhD Program” of the Digital Society Initiative to delve into societal and ethical issues of digitalization. She is also a manager of two scientific communities: Ethics and Health at the DSI. Finally, she was affiliated with the Institute of Implementation Science in Healthcare to work on more empirically oriented research.

Her PhD research was at the intersection of medical ethics, philosophy of technology, ethics of AI and health research. She focused on the ethical and epistemic challenges and requirements regarding human-AI interaction with a particular focus on healthcare conversational agents used in the context of mental health and well-being. She was also involved in projects focusing on the public legitimacy of digital research methods, the challenges and requirements of the use of digital unstructured data in health research and the use of technologies in shared decision-making.

In her research, she aims to bridge the normative, theoretical methods with empirical research.