Lavinia Marin

Lavinia Marin is an Assistant Professor in the Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section at TU Delft, Netherlands. Her work bridges Digital Ethics, 4E Cognition, and Value Sensitive Design, focusing on epistemic agency in online environments.

• Projects: ESDIT, Comet 3.0, SURF grants
• Research Centers: Delft Digital Ethics Centre

Her research explores how social media platforms shape critical thinking, online emotions, and epistemic norms, using frameworks like social epistemology and enactivism. She also develops experiential ethics education for engineers, emphasizing moral reflection and moral sensitivity through embodied exercises and material interactions.

Key article trends include critiques of attention economy mechanisms, emotional labor in digital spaces, and pedagogical innovations for engineering ethics. Her work on 4E cognition and digital misinformation highlights the interplay between design, cognition, and moral norms.

• Teaching Focus: Ethics education for engineers
• Methodology: Value Sensitive Design, 4E Cognition, Social Epistemology