is a science & technology studies scholar, philosopher, media theorist
as well as professor for media sociology at the University of Paderborn.
Research Fields
I am educated as a philosopher, and focused very early on science and technology studies (STS), especially in the fields of artificial intelligence, robotics, and gender studies. As STS is not established as a separate discipline in Germany (and many other European countries), I have worked in many different disciplines to be able to follow my research interests – from media studies, to computer science, the history of technology, as well as in interdisciplinary and international contexts.
Positions
University of Paderborn
2011 – present Professor, Department of Media Studies
University of Paderborn
Summer 2021 Data Society, Department for Science
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Summer 2018 Visiting Professor, Department for Cross-Disciplinary Studies
University of Vienna
Summer 2016 Visiting Professor, Department for Science and Technology Studies
University of Twente
Summer 2015 Visiting Professor, Department for Philosophy
TU Braunschweig
2010 – 2011 Visiting Professor, Centre for Gender Studies
2008 – 2009 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Visiting Professor, Centre for Gender Studies
2001 – 2004 Senior Researcher, Institute for History of Science and Technology
Uppsala University
2009 – 2010 Visiting Research Professor, Centre for Gender Excellence
RWTH Aachen
2007 – 2008 Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld University
2006 – 2007 Member of the international research group Science in the Context of Application
University of Duisburg-Essen
2006 – 2007 Visiting professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Naples
2005 – 2008 Contract Researcher, EU project Ethicbots. Emerging Technoethics of Human Interaction with Communication, Bionic, & Robotic Systems, PI: Guglielmo Tamburini
University of Freiburg
2005 Visiting Professor, Institute for Computer Science and Society
Lancaster University
2005 Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Science Studies (invited by Lucy Suchman)
University of Vienna
2004 – 2006 Senior Researcher, Institute for Philosophy of Science
California Institute of Technology
2002 Research Fellow, Dept. of History of Science & Technology (invited by Evelyn Fox Keller)
University of Hamburg
2000 Teaching Assistant of Cheris Kramare (Univ. of Oregon) at the International Women’s University IFU, Dept. of Computer Science
Education
University of Bremen
2001 PhD with distinction: Thesis Umkämpfte Bedeutungen: Naturkonzepte im Zeitalter der Technoscience (Contested Meanings: Nature in the Age of Technoscience)
Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen
1994 Master Artium Philosophy and Political science (with Distinction)