Dr Marietjie Botes has transitioned from a 20-year career as a practicing attorney in South Africa specialising in health law and biotechnology to academia where she focusses on interdisciplinary research at the intersection between science, technology, law, and ethics. Marietjie’s research interests and activities span along the path that data follows from outer space to medical devices and include geospatial data use during health emergencies; data privacy, governance, ownership, and commercialisation; gene editing technologies; cybersecurity research ethics; medical devices; and general digital ethics. In April 2021 Marietjie moved to Luxembourg where she is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-Technical Cybersecurity at the SnT Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability Security and Trust of the University of Luxembourg, EU.
Dr Paul Gibson's research areas include software engineering and software architecture, formal methods for safety critical systems, electronic voting systems, computer science education, and digital ethics. He is currently working on the development of re-usable educational bricks for teaching digital ethics. This work has included ethical case studies on electronic-pills, automated vehicles, exam proctoring, algorithmic bias, fake news, and technical debt.