Juliane Ahn has been a research associate at Bergische Universität Wuppertal since May 2023, where she teaches interface technologies in the sub-course "Design of Interactive Media".
Since May 2022, she has been a senior research associate in the interdisciplinary and cross-university research project "Robotic Operations - Man and Machine in the Surgical Network", which is funded by the RheinEnergie Foundation. Together with physicians from the University Hospital of Cologne, she is researching the spatial, technical and ergonomic conditions and requirements for surgeons and other OR staff when using surgical assistant robots in operations.
As a senior project member, she is in charge of both the study design and technical implementation, as well as the evaluation of the results.
In May 2022, she completed her master's degree at the Cologne International School of Design with her master's thesis "A City on Demand". In her master's thesis, Juliane Ahn investigates how on-demand service companies are profoundly changing urban space. Based on design ethnographic analyses, she explores new forms of algorithmic organization, control, and surveillance of urban labor and mobility, pointing to the precarious living and working conditions of solo self-employed platform workers. Building on this, she sketches the contours of an emerging "city on demand."
Between 2014 and 2019 she completed the bachelor's program "Integrated Design", which she successfully finished with her thesis "Screen Spaces". The thesis was an interdisciplinary cooperation project between the University Hospital Cologne and the Cologne International School of Design at the TH Köln. In it, Juliane Ahn investigates the interplay of image, space and action in robot-guided operations in the field of "Design Theory and Research" and develops design perspectives on the relationship between design and medicine.
She obtained her advanced technical college entrance qualification in 2013 at the Ernst Barlach School in Munich.