dr. F (Francisca) Grommé

Biography

Dr. Francisca Grommé is Assistant Professor in Digitalisation in Work and Society at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, where she researches the societal implications of AI, datafication, and digital labour through the lenses of science and technology studies (STS), political science, and digital sociology. As an ‘ethnographer of AI,’ her work explores questions of surveillance, citizenship, expertise, sustainability, and the politics of digital infrastructures, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies affect marginalised communities and professional practices.

She is the Scientific Director of the ‘Societal Impact of AI’ (AIPact), an Erasmus Initiative fostering interdisciplinary and impact-oriented scholarship. In addition, she co-founded and directs the Feminist Generative AI Lab, a Convergence initiative. Since 2026, she coordinates the interdisciplinary master's programme Digitalisation in Work and Society.

Throughout her scientific career in the Netherlands and the UK, she has secured grants from the Dutch National Research Council, Erasmus Trustfonds and the British Academy. Dr. Grommé’s research has been published in leading journals including Science, Technology & Human Values, Science as Culture, and Nations and Nationalism.