Irma van der Ploeg (1964) holds degrees in philosophy and science and technology studies. In 2006 she was appointed as Associate Professor of Infonomics & New Media at Zuyd University, Maastricht/Heerlen, The Netherlands, where she is heading the Infonomics & New Media Research Centre. She has published extensively on philosophical, normative, and gender aspects of medical technologies and information technologies, in particular on the relation between technology and the body, and biometric identification technologies.
She is author of “The Machine-Readable Body. Essays on Biometrics and the Informatization of the Body (Maastricht: Shaker, 2005). In 2008 she was awarded a Starting Grant for Independent Researchers from the European Research Council, for a large, 5-year research project entitled “Social and Ethical Aspects of Digital Identities. Towards a Value Sensitive Identity Management.

Research Networks and Activity:

• www.digideas.nl
• www.hideproject.org