Roberto Cibin is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork. His interdisciplinary work brings together Science and Technology Studies, Participatory Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-supported cooperative work, and Responsible Software Engineering. His current research examines how responsibility, ethical agency, and accountability are negotiated in software engineering practice, including in professional teams, engineering education, platform-mediated work, and AI-supported coding.

He has previously worked on European and interdisciplinary projects concerning community technologies, digital public services, inequalities, open data, and air-quality communication. Across these contexts, he has used qualitative and participatory methods to involve professionals, communities, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders in the assessment and design of technologies. He holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Padova and has professional experience in public-sector digitalisation, science communication, and stakeholder engagement.

Roberto Cibin’s research explores how technologies and technological knowledge emerge through interactions among people, organisations, professional practices, data, tools, infrastructures, regulations, and the environments in which technologies are developed and used. A recurring concern in his work is how power influences these interactions, including whose knowledge is recognised, whose interests shape technological decisions, and who has meaningful opportunities to participate.

His current work focuses on Responsible Software Engineering and examines how software professionals understand and address responsibility, anticipate the possible consequences of their work, and engage with the people and communities affected by digital technologies. This includes research on AI-supported coding, ethical agency, public empowerment, and the organisational conditions that enable or constrain responsible action.

His broader interests include Participatory Design, Human-Computer Interaction, community-based technology design, digital public services, responsible and inclusive artificial intelligence, and technology for environmental sustainability and public health. Across these areas, his research combines qualitative methods with participatory and design-based approaches to involve diverse stakeholders in technology development, with particular attention to communities and actors who often have less influence over technological decisions.