Artist, performer, and founder of the Comic Research Institute, Laura collaborates with researchers to explore how emerging technologies shape us and society. Her projects revolve around a comedic premise designed for audience engagement. Striking stagecraft immerses viewers in a speculative and satirical world, inviting them to rehearse the future they desire. Laura has presented a television program about AI-generated emails, designed a mini-marketplace on algorithmic social profiling, and created training to counter unwanted digital surveillance or data collection without consent. Her work has been commissioned and exhibited at the Science Gallery Dublin, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Dublin Fringe Festival, the CCCB, the ArtScience Museum Singapore, and the MOD. Museum of Discovery.

Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin. She is also Co-Director of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities and Director of the MPhil in Digital Humanities and Culture. She is also an SFI-funded Research Fellow at the ADAPT Centre. For the past 10 years, Dr. Edmond has coordinated numerous funded research projects, including her most recent project on artificial intelligence, big data, and democracy (KT4D). She has held leadership roles in various European organizations at the policy and infrastructure levels, including six years as Director and Chair of DARIAH-EU, and four years at the European Commission's Open Science Policy Platform. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for the Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH). Her research explores interdisciplinarity, humanistic/hybrid research processes, and the emergence of critical digital humanities.