Vlasta Sikimić

I am a tenured Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science and a member of the Philosophy & Ethics Group at Eindhoven University of Technology. My areas of expertise include Social Epistemology of Science, Metascience, Philosophy of AI in Science and Philosophy of AI in Education.

Vlasta Sikimić

News

September 2026. My article Navigating AI-Accelerated Science: An Intellectual Virtue Approach to Responsible Inquiry is now published in Episteme. I develop an intellectual virtue framework for responsible AI use in scientific research.

December 2026 (upcoming). I will give the invited talk Is Faster Science Better Science? Virtuous Use of AI in Research at the NeurIPS 2026 workshop AI for Meta-Science: Scaling and Organizing Science in the Age of AI Scientists in Paris on 13 December.

New project awarded. VISTA, Virtuous and Independent Student Thinking with AI, has received EuroTeQ funding and will begin in 2027.

How can we maximize scientific knowledge? Philosophy, ethics, and AI in education. Podcast Agelast (in Serbian).

Current research

I currently lead Intellectual Virtues and the Future of Research with Generative AI, funded by an NWO XS grant, and Virtuous Reasoning with AI, funded by 4TU.CEE. I have also been awarded a EuroTeQ grant for VISTA, Virtuous and Independent Student Thinking with AI, which begins in 2027. These projects examine how intellectual virtues can guide responsible AI use in science and education. Read more about my research.

Background and earlier activities

Previously, I worked at the Cluster of Excellence – Machine Learning for Science and the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology of the University of Tübingen. Even before, I was a researcher at the Weizsäcker Center (University of Tübingen) and the Institute for Philosophy of the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Belgrade). I was also an associate member of the Laboratory for Experimental Psychology (University of Belgrade).

Education

Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Belgrade
M.Sc. in Logic, University of Amsterdam
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Earlier activities

June 2026. I co-organized Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review at Eindhoven University of Technology.

I am honored and humbled to be elected as a member of the Steering Committee of the European Philosophy of Science Association. I am excited to contribute to shaping science policy and fostering positive change.

I chaired the Organizing Committee of the EPSA 2023 conference, held in Belgrade in September 2023, and received a Congress Ambassador Award for this initiative.

In March 2023, the Ethical guidelines for safe and reliable use of AI were adopted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia. I had the opportunity to be one of the members of the expert team creating them.

From 2023 to 2025, I was a co-applicant on Intervening on Curiosity: Examining the Interplay between Intellectual Virtues and Epistemic Emotions, funded by the University of Tübingen’s LEAD Intramural Research Grant, with Gabe Orona and Kou Murayama.