Dr. Mareike Sirman-Winkler
Mareike Sirman-Winkler is a research associate in the “Globalization, Labor, and Production” research group at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and an associate researcher in the “Working with Artificial Intelligence” research group at the Weizenbaum Institute (WI). She earned her Ph.D. on the acceptance of AI in social administration. Before that, she worked as a policy analyst at a federal ministry. She studied European Studies with a focus on political science and political economy in Passau, Berlin, and Istanbul.
Her research focuses on the transformation of the world of work (particularly in public administration) driven by AI, which she examines from the perspectives of political science and the sociology of work. At the WZB, she is researching the implications of generative AI for knowledge work (external-funding project “GENKIA” at the WZB & WI). In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), she is conducting experiments on AI in public employment agencies (project “Acceptance of AI in Public Employment Services”).
Mareike teaches at public universities as well as at continuing education academies for the public sector. She has served as a reviewer for the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society. She advises government agencies at the federal, state, and local levels on the use of AI technologies and is a speaker on the topic of AI.
CV
2025 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. pol.), Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; dissertation title: “Artificial Intelligence in Social Welfare Administration: Factors Influencing the Implementation of AI in Discretionary Decision-Making”
Since 2024 Research Associate, “Globalization, Labor, and Production” Research Group, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) & Associate Researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute
2021–2023 Research Fellow, Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS), including a research stay at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
2017–2020 Research Associate, Institute for the History and Future of Work (IGZA)
Publications
"Biased by design? Case Managers’ Multidimensional Preferences Toward the Design of Algorithmic Decision Support Systems", with Martin Dietz, Christopher Osiander, and Markus Tepe, Public Administration Review (online first). 2026.
"Are Case Managers Willing to Entrust Counseling Tasks to Artificial Intelligence? The Role of Administrative Discretion, Client Interaction, and Technology Attitudes" with Martin Dietz, Christopher Osiander, and Markus Tepe, Journal of European Social Policy. 2025 online first.
"Experimental Research Designs for Studying Social Policy and its Implementation" with Michael Jankowski and Markus Tepe, in T. Klenk and L. Lahat (Eds.) Handbook of Social Policy Implementation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (EE) 2025. forthcoming.
"Fortschritt und Gefahr. Wie die jüngste Generation der Künstlichen Intelligenz die Arbeitswelt verändert." with Christine Gerber, in WZB-Mitteilungen. 2025.
"Die Symbiose von generativer KI und Arbeit. Erweiterung der Horizonte oder Erosion menschlicher Kompetenz?" with Butollo, F.; Christine, C.; Görnemann, E.; Greminger, L.; Katzinski, A.; Kulla, M.; Sirman-Winkler, M.; Spott, J., in Weizenbaum Discussion Paper 41. Berlin: Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft. 2024.
"Not all algorithms!'Lessons from the Private Sector on Mitigating Gender Discrimination" with Sonja Köhne and Miriam Klöpper, in D. Demmler, D. Krupka, and H. Federrath (Eds) 2022. INFORMATIK 2022, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI). Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn. https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2022_110. 2022.