Dr. Katleen Gabriels is a moral philosopher, specialised in computer and machine ethics. She is an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University (FASoS, Department of Philosophy). She researches the co-shaping of morality and computer technologies. Katleen is the programme director of the BA Digital Society.

She holds an MSc in Germanic Philology from KU Leuven and an MSc in Moral Sciences from Ghent University and a doctoral degree (2014) in Philosophy and Moral Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher from 2014 to 2017 and as professor ad interim (2016-2017). She was also a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna (2016). In addition, she also studied one full academic year (2007-2008) at Helsinki University (Erasmus programme).

From April 2017 to December 2018 Katleen was an Assistant Professor in the research group Philosophy and Ethics at the Department Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The Willy Calewaert-Chair 2018-2019 (demens.nu) was awarded to her by the faculty Engineering Sciences of the VUB.

She is an executive board member of INSEIT (https://inseit.net/), a steering committee member and the deputy chair of ETHICOMP, an international organisation that occupies itself with ethical computing, and an affiliate member of 4TU Centre for Ethics and Technology. She is the author of Conscientious AI. Machines Learning Morals (VUBPRESS, 2020), the revised and English version of Regels voor robots. Ethiek in tijden van AI (2019, VUBPRESS). Her first book Onlife. Hoe de digitale wereld je leven bepaalt (How digitalisation shapes your life) was published in 2016 (Lannoo).