Projects - dr. MH (Mareike) Smolka
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In her PhD project, Mareike studied the relation between knowledge-making practices and practices of valuation in neuroscientific and clinical research on mindfulness meditation. It resulted in her dissertation entitled Ethics in Action at Maastricht University, which she presented in the Science & Belief in Society podcast.
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As a recipient of the European Mind & Life Francisco J. Varela Award 2019, Mareike conducted a pilot study testing the potential of reflexive practitioner dialogues to enhance socio-technical integration in mindfulness research. The data set of the study is available on dataverse.nl (https://doi.org/10.34894/ZG5GMB).
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As a research fellow at the Human Technology Center at RWTH Aachen University, Mareike studies and facilitates responsible governance practices in the innovation ecosystem emerging around the NeuroSys Cluster4Future funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. NeuroSys is a high-tech innovation project developing brain-inspired hardware and software for Artificial Intelligence applications.