Daphne Auer is a computer scientist and advocates for socially and environmentally sustainable digitalisation policies through the Common Grounds Forum.

Until 2024, she studied computer science at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, focusing on digital image processing (computer vision) and information retrieval. Her research focused on the information content of less represented data groups in the context of the smallest possible training data sets and model updates with newly generated data, as well as their integration into search engine rankings.

Her involvement in digital policy began in 2023 with the Common Grounds Forum (CGF). Daphne Auer is particularly committed to self-determination in the digital space, which requires transparency and comprehensibility of algorithms and enables democratic and respectful coexistence. Her work as a representative for the jointly developed demands of young voices has taken her to the German government’s Digital Summit and into collaborations with the Open Search Foundation and the Higher Education Forum on Digitalisation, among others.

Since May 2025, she has been on the steering committee of the “Women and Computer Science” specialist group of the German Informatics Society (GI).