Naja Holten Møller

The PhD fellowship is hosted by the Human Centered Computing section in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, within the Faculty of Science. The project sits inside REGULAIRE, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network focused on how regulation can adapt when technologies, risks, and expectations change quickly. The research topic centers on the street-level bureaucracy of regulatory implementation for AI. The doctoral student will carry out in-depth qualitative studies of how EU digital regulation is implemented in SMEs developing AI-related technologies, with attention to how developers translate regulatory guidance into product and service design and how implementation strategies differ across sectors. The position is embedded in a highly interdisciplinary human-centered computing environment that works across human-computer interaction, computer supported cooperative work, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and digital fabrication. The student will join an international cohort and work with researchers across institutions, regulators, standardisation bodies, and international organisations. The project also includes network activities such as summer schools, methods workshops, monthly paper development seminars, and a planned intersectoral secondment. Supervision is provided within the University of Copenhagen’s Human-Centered Computing section and in collaboration with an information law scholar at the University of Amsterdam.