Talks & Press

Podcasts

  • Sangre y Suerte Podcast – The Inevitable SOCIAL ROBOTS That Are Changing the WORLD
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  • Cambridge Student Podcast – AI ethics, human rights and my work as President of Cambridge University AI Ethics Society
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  • Mindshop Knowledge Society Podcast – AI ethics, feminism, social robotics and design justice
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At the Sangre y Suerte podcast.

Invited Talks

  • Cambridge Neuroscience Cambrain Neurotalks – Let's get social, on social robotics, Cambridge, UK (2025)
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology – AI Ethics for energy engineering students, Stockholm, Sweden (2024 & 2025)
  • ACII 2024 – Keynote & panellist, workshop From Lab to Life, Glasgow, Scotland (2024)
  • Raoul Wallenberg Academy Conference – AI Ethics, human rights and democracy in education, Stockholm, Sweden (2024)
  • Mindshop Knowledge Society – Cognitive science, AI and robotics seminar (2023)
  • Cambridge AI Ethics Society × CHIA – Early Career AI Ethics Workshop, Cambridge, uk (2023)
  • Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) – Social Humanoid Assistive Affective Robotics for Cognitive Interventions, Cambridge, UK (2023)
  • Sweco IT Sweden / Microsoft Share & Evolve – AI Ethics and Responsibility, Stockholm, Sweden (2023)
  • Oxbridge Robotics Summer School – Robotics and Ethics, Cambridge, UK (2023)
  • Climate Parliament, Stockholm University – AI, Climate Change and Science Fiction, Stockholm, Sweden (2018)
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In Doha, Qatar at the Swedish Embassy with Furhat Robotics.

Panels

  • IEEE RO-MAN 2024 – Interactive AI for Human-Centered Robotics workshop, Pasadena, USA (2024)
  • EQUALS EU – Whose Digital Future? Gender, Rights, Inclusion, and Exclusion, Geneva, Switzerland (2023)
  • Nordic China Startup Forum – AI Trends, Business and Female Leadership (2022)
  • Science Festival Gothenburg – AI, Robotics and Science Fiction (2020)

Interviewed in East Anglia News TV about social robotics.

Press & Features

  • EduAI book – Swedish Women in AI – Featured interview (2025)
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  • ITV News Anglia – Interview about social robot companions and robot pets (2025)
  • Cambridge Edition – Interview with a Robot (with Furhat), Cambridge Festival (2025)
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  • Study With Me – Eleonora Svanberg – Featured in book on mathematics and STEM (2024)
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  • #IamthefutureofAI – Interview by Women in AI Ethics (2024)
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  • Dagens Industri – Interview after career stipend (Swedish, 2022)
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In Nairobi, Kenya as an AI Ethics delegate from Cambridge

In Nairobi, Kenya as a AI Ethics delegate from Cambridge

Selected Awards

  • King’s College Cambridge Ferris Travel Award – Awarded for travel to Paris Conference on AI and Digital Ethics (2025)
  • Cambridge Trust International Scholar – Fully funded PhD scholarship for outstanding academic achievements (2024)
  • 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ – Women in AI Ethics annual list of rising stars and pioneers in the AI Ethics space (2024)
  • Lucy Cavendish College Travel Award (x2) – granted for research related travels to Nairobi, Kenya and Pasadena, USA (2023-24)
  • Nova 111 Student List – one of the 111 young people with most potential in Sweden (Mathematics, Data, and Analytics) (2023)
  • Career Stipend Sweden – prestigious stipend awarded to promising early career students in Sweden (2022)