Armin Grunwald

• Ethics of new technologies
• Technology assessment
• Digitisation

• Sustainability and future responsibility

Born in 1960

• Since 2007 Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Since 2002 Head of the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB)
• Since 1999 Head of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• 1996-1999 Deputy Head of the European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
• 1991-1995 Scientific Assistant at the German Aerospace Center
• 1987-1991 Systems Specialist in Software Engineering at Systems Research Laboratories, Cologne
• 1984-1987 Scientific Assistant at the University of Cologne

Memberships

• Since 2021 Member of the German Ethics Council
• Since 2020 Member of the Committee for Science Planning at the International Science Council
• Since 2020 Chair of the Zukunftskreis at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
• Since 2016 Member of the National Monitoring Committee for the Search of a Final Repository (Nationales Begleitgremium für die Endlager-Suche), since 2020 Co-Chair
• Since 2009 Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), since 2014 Member of the Executive Board
• 2013-2019 Member of the Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (Beirat für nachhaltige Entwicklung) of the Baden-Württemberg State Government
• 2016-2017 Member of the Ethics Commission “Automated and Connected Driving” at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
• 2014-2016 Member of the Repository Commission (Endlagerkommission) at the German Bundestag

Distinctions

• 2013-2014 Visiting Professor at the Ethics Centre of the Dutch Technical Universities
• 2012 Visiting Professor at the University of Klagenfurt
• 2002 Alcatel SEL Professorship at the Technical University of Darmstadt

• Grunwald, A. (ed.) (2021): Wer bist du, Mensch? Transformationen menschlicher Selbstverständnisse im wissenschaftlich-technischen Fortschritt. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder.
• Grunwald, A. (2019): Der unterlegene Mensch. Die Zukunft der Menschheit im Angesicht von Algorithmen, künstlicher Intelligenz und Robotern. München: riva.
• Grunwald, A. (2019): Digitalisierung als Prozess. Ethische Herausforderungen inmitten allmählicher Verschiebungen zwischen Mensch, Technik und Gesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 20 (2), 121–145. https://doi.org/10.5771/1439-880X-2019-2-121
• Grunwald, A. (2016): Nachhaltigkeit verstehen. Arbeiten an der Bedeutung nachhaltiger Entwicklung. München: oekom.
• Grunwald, A. (ed.) (2013): Handbuch Technikethik. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.