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Job title:

Chancellor's Fellow

Office:

Design Informatics, Bayes Centre

Biography

Caterina holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Nottingham (2018) and an artist diploma in piano performance from the Conservatorio G.B. Martini, Bologna (2014). Her prior affiliations include roles as a research associate at the University of Konstanz, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turin.

Research interests

  • Human-AI Co-Creativity
  • Responsible AI
  • Human and Artificial Agency
  • Creativity Support Tools
  • Philosophy of Creativity

Teaching

NLP-RR: Researching Responsible and Trustworthy Natural Language Processing.

Research

Caterina's research lies at the intersection between human and artificial creativity, philosophy of art, and the philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As BRAID Research Fellow, she is leading a project in collaboration with Adobe to promote the responsible integration of AI tools into creative practices. As Co-Investigator in the UKRI-funded CoSTAR and DeCADE projects, she investigates the disruptive effects that emerging technological innovations have on creative workflows.

At the forefront of the research on modes of shared agency and creativity between humans, data, and technology, Caterina is research affiliate of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and lead of the Edinburgh College of Art in the Advisory Board of the Centre for Data, Culture & Society. She actively engages in panel discussions and conferences that convene stakeholders from academia, industry, and policy-making spheres to discuss the impact of AI on the creative sector. To promote interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaborations on the topic, in 2024 she started the research cluster "Creativity, AI, and the Human" at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, and she is Senior Fellow of the Future Unilab, Una Europa Alliance. She is part of the organising committee of the international Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, within which in 2023 she initiated the international summer school, the School of X.

Her scholarly work has been published in journals such as the European Journal for Philosophy of Science, British Journal of Aesthetics, ACM Communication Design Quarterly, Leonardo (MIT Press), as well as in conference proceedings including the CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems and the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC).

Current PhD students

PhD Supervision Topics

  • Creativity
  • Human-AI Co-Creativity
  • Responsible AI
  • Creativity Support Tools
  • Creativity and Embodiment
  • Agency
  • Computational Creativity
  • Philosophy of Art and Creativity
  • Philosophy of AI
  • Aesthetics