About

Dr. Niina Zuber is a researcher and coordinator in the “Law and Ethics” research area at the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). As an ethicist, she engages with the challenges of ethical software design, requirements engineering, and the question of how ethical deliberation can be methodologically integrated into the working practices of software development. A particular focus of her work lies in the interaction between software and democracy, especially how digital technologies influence democratic processes and which ethical requirements arise from this for software development. She has explored these topics in the book Introduction to Ethical Software Engineering (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, 2026).

After studying philosophy, economics, and sociology in Tübingen and at the University of Oregon, she completed her doctorate at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), focusing on the relationship between ethics and software development. Prior to this, she worked as a Research Consultant at Cognostics AG, a start-up in the field of software development. Before joining bidt, she was affiliated with LMU Munich and worked at the Center for Digitalisation Bavaria (ZD.B) at the intersection of culture and digital transformation.