Irina Nalis

Irina Nalis is a psychologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Recommender Systems (TU Wien) and the Linz Institute for Transformative Change (JKU Linz). Her work explores how digital systems interact with behavior, decision-making, and bias, focusing on the societal and psychological dimensions of algorithmic technologies. With a background in applied psychology, she investigates how digital infrastructures can support—not exploit—human potential and collective agency.

She is a contributor to the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and a head curator of the discourse programme at the Elevate Festival in Graz, which addresses digitality, democracy, and net politics through critical public dialogue. Her interdisciplinary approach advocates for a regenerative, non-extractive digital transformation grounded in justice and long-term societal well-being.