Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Dr. Diana Schneider

Diana Schneider is a philosopher and researcher in technology assessment in the “Innovations in the Health System” business unit within the Department of Emerging Technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in Karlsruhe. She has been a research associate at Fraunhofer ISI since 2021 and has also served as a senior researcher and project manager since 2025.

From 2008 to 2017, Diana Schneider studied philosophy and German language and literature at the University of Potsdam (B.A.) as well as Culture and Technology with a focus on technology development in public discourse (M.A.) at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg.  During her master’s studies (2015–2017), she worked as a research assistant at the Institute Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft (IMEW) in Berlin; she subsequently served as an intern at the Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA) in Vienna. From 2018 to 2022, she was a research assistant in the Department of Social Science at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (now: Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and PhD student at the Digital Society research program NRW.

From 2018 to 2025, she was a PhD student at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. She defended her dissertation on AI-supported participation planning for people with disabilities (including early-stage disabilities) and its ethical, social, and professional implications in the summer of 2025.

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