Prof. T. Sharon (Tamar)

Tamar Sharon is co-director of iHub, Radboud University’s interdisciplinary center for research on digitalization and society. She studied history and political theory and holds a PhD in interdisciplinary studies (2011). Her fields of specialization are philosophy and ethics of technology, science and technology studies (STS) and critical data studies. Her research explores how the increasing digitalization of society destabilizes public values and norms, and how best to protect them. She has done research on human enhancement, self-tracking and Quantified Self, pandemic solidarity and the ‘Googlization of health’, the growing presence of Big Tech in health and medicine. Most recently, with her team at Radboud University she has developed a theoretical framework for studying digitalization as ‘sphere transgressions’. She previously held positions at Maastricht University and a visiting fellowship at King’s College London.

Tamar is a member of the European Group on Ethics (EGE), which advises the President of the European Commission on questions related to science and new technologies, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She has been a recipient of NWO Rubicon, Veni and Vidi grants, an ERC Starting Grant, the Mara Bellar Prize, and the Edmond Hustinx Prize for Science. She currently leads an Ammodo team science award. Tamar regularly appears in Dutch and international media on questions related to digitalization.