Ethics Board
The Ethics Board provides guidance on ethical aspects relevant to the activities and services of NFDIxCS.
Asia J. Biega
is a tenure-track faculty member (W2) at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), where she leads the Responsible Computing group, and principal investigator in the Cluster of Excellence CASA and the interdisciplinary consortium FINDHR. Her work focuses on responsible computing, data protection and governance, and digital well-being, with a particular emphasis on AI- and data-driven systems.
She has received numerous awards for her research, including the Council of Europe’s Stefano Rodotà Award, the GI-DBIS Dissertation Award, and the Annual Privacy Forum Best Paper Award, and was named one of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” (2025).
Her research spans computer science, information science, psychology, philosophy, law, and public policy. She collaborates widely with scholars, industry, and policymakers, and serves as General Co-Chair of ACM FAccT 2025 and member of its Executive Committee.
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Christina B. Class
is Professor of Computer Science at Ernst Abbe University of Applied Sciences Jena, where she has been teaching since 2017. Her research focuses on the societal and ethical dimensions of information and communication technologies, with a particular emphasis on responsible computing, digital ethics, and human-centered AI.
She is a founding member of the GI working group “Informatics and Ethics” and a regular contributor to its publications and teaching formats, including the case-study series Gewissensbits, which invites discussion of ethical dilemmas in computing. Claß has extensive international teaching experience, having held academic positions in Switzerland and Jordan, and she coordinates the project MoVeKI2EAH, a modular teaching toolkit for AI competencies in applied sciences.
Her work combines interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement, bridging computer science, ethics, and societal impact, and she continues to shape discussions on ethics and data-driven technologies in Germany and beyond.
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Carsten Trinitis
is Chair of Computer Architecture and Operating Systems at the Technical University of Munich’s Heilbronn campus. He leads research on high-performance, parallel, and multi-core computer architectures, with a focus on optimizing computationally intensive numerical simulations for advanced hardware.
Trinitis has held academic positions in Germany and the UK, including Full Professor of Distributed Computing at the University of Bedfordshire, and has extensive industry experience with MCG GmbH and FORCE Computers GmbH.
He serves as spokesperson of the GI working group “Informatics and Ethics,” is a GI ambassador at TUM, and a board member of the Konrad Zuse Society. From 2014 to 2019, he was an elected member of the Executive Board of the German Informatics Society (GI). His work bridges cutting-edge computer architecture research with ethical and societal considerations in computing.
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