Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny, Ph.D.
Helga Nowotny is Former President of the ERC, the European Research Council (2010-2013) and one of its Founding Members (2007). She is Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich.
FUTURE NEEDS WISDOM
An Intellectual Memoir
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» Available at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
From Uncertainty to Generative AI:
An interview with professor Helga Nowotny
Weiter machen wie bisher ist keine Option:
Transition, Transformation und Paradigmenwechsel
Policy Brief from Helga Nowotny (in German)
January 2024
Prof Nowotny at the Wiener Vorlesungen
Credit: Paul Pibernig/Wienbibliothek im Rathaus
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Helga Nowotny receives Honorary Doctorate at Lund University
Helga Nowotny in Conversation with Elena Esposito
Trusting in AI...or Do We?
The Deep Dive Podcast
Die Verschraenkung der Zeiten
Chronoi Lecture 2021
Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin
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The Imaginary Dialogue Between Science and the Public:
Searching for Institutional Robustness
Berliner Empfang 2021-2022
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
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UNISA Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Annual Lecture by Helga Nowotny
In AI We Trust
Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms
In AI We Trust
Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms
Helga Nowotny receiving the title Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna
ETH Podcast-Series on Uncertainty with Helga Nowotny
Uncertainty in Academia
Helga Nowotny Awarded Inaugural Yehuda Elkana Fellowship by the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network
Pandemics, Politics, and Society
Critical Perspectives on the Covid-19 Crisis
Chapter by Helga Nowotny
In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization
Curiosity Studies with an afterword by Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny at Falling Walls Cirlce
Berlin, 8 November
Picture by Judith Affolter
The last Europatagung for the ERA Council Forum Austria
Vienna, 5 November
Prof Nowotny moderating the conversation with Nobel and Kavli PRIZE Laureates: Is blue-sky science sparking innovation, 26 September 2019
Die Ungewissheit umarmen
Interview with Helga Nowotny in "Die Zeit"
2 August 2018
FAZ Interview with Helga Nowotny
Positions
CO-Principal Investigator of The Socioscope. A pioneering methodology for understanding societal transitions. A research project funded by the NOMIS Foundation.
Member of the Austrian Council for Sciences, Technology, and Innovation
Member of the Falling Walls Foundation Board of Trustees
Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna
» Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Member of the Council of Administration of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, IEA de Paris
Senior Visiting Fellow
School of Transnational Goverance, EUI Florence
Member Para Limes Advisory Board
Fellow International Science Council
