Viliana Milanova

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Groningen, where I study how technological developments, such as robotization and artificial intelligence (AI), affect the health, wellbeing, and subjective experience of workers.

My current projects examine how robot adoption shapes worker health and wellbeing, using cross-sectional survey data from 20 European countries linked to industry-level robot adoption data, and how attributing work to AI influences perceived task meaning and effort, studied through a survey experiment fielded in the United States and the Netherlands.

More broadly, my research revolves around a common question: what happens to the human experience of work when disruptive technologies reshape it.