Roberta Fischli

Roberta Fischli

Research Affiliate

Roberta Fischli is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In April 2024 she completed her PhD thesis ‘Freedom after Algorithms’, in which she offers a new conception of personal freedom for the digital age. In her research, Roberta investigates how digital technology can be used for collective empowerment and digital self-determination. To this end, she has developed the “FREE” principles, an interdisciplinary framework that features regulatory and design strategies to promote digital self-determination

Roberta has also published work on digital public infrastructure, algorithmic power, and decentralized participatory democracy. Previously, she was a Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS), and at Georgetown Law in Washington, DC. Her work has been published in Perspectives on Politics, European Journal of Political Theory, and others.

Roberta holds an MA in Political Science (Political Economy and Philosophy), and a BA in Political Science and Modern History from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She lives in Zurich and San Francisco.