The Faculty is pleased to announce another successful Dresden Fellow application.
Dr. Katharina Fellnhofer (Marie Curie Fellow hosted by ETH Zurich / Harvard University) and Prof. Dr. Lars Hornuf (Chair of Business Administration, esp. Finance and Financial Technology) have jointly acquired the fellowship with the title FACEption: Investigating Human Intuition for AI-Generated (Faces) Detection.

About the project
Katharina Fellnhofer will visit the faculty from 01.02.2024 to 31.07.2024. Together with Ross Malaga (Montclair University / USA), Lars Hornuf and Katharina Fellnhofer will investigate the question of whether human intuition can recognise faces generated by artificial intelligence (AI). The assumption is that participants who guess AI-generated faces will experience a significant increase in performance over time. In a pilot study, the research team already found that people with lower confidence in their decision-making abilities showed greater competence in guessing AI-generated faces than people with higher confidence in their decision-making abilities. This is particularly relevant to the corporate context, where AI is playing an increasingly important role. Accordingly, it is also becoming increasingly important for managers to identify and analyse AI-generated errors.

Within the research project, a comprehensive empirical study will be conducted. The aim is to build up a data set with about 1,500 test persons, which will later also be used for other research questions.

About Dr. Katharina Fellnhofer
Katharina Fellnhofer has been a Marie Curie Fellow at ETH Zurich and Havard University since 2021. Her research focuses on intuitive decision making, gender differences, sustainable entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education and social innovation. Katharina Fellnhofer regularly publishes her research results in high-ranking journals. Among her 44 peer-reviewed publications are articles in Nature Reviews Psychology, Nature Human Behaviour and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Further, she has an impressive track record in attracting international research projects.

About the Dresden Fellowship Program
The Dresden Fellowship Program invites international scholars to conduct joint research projects and teach at TU Dresden. For a time period of two weeks up to six months, early-career researchers can be funded as Dresden Junior Fellows and established researchers as Dresden Senior Fellows. With both program lines, TU Dresden aims to attract scientific talents.