About

Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich, and a founding member of the European Research Council and former President of the ERC. Currently she is member of the Austrian Council for Sciences, Technology, and Innovation, Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna, member of the Board of Trustees of the Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin and Member of the Council of Administration at the IEA de Paris. Among the numerous awards from Academies of Science and Honorary Doctorates are an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Oxford and the Leibniz- Medal from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). Her latest book publications are „The Cunning of Uncertainty“ (2015), „An Orderly Mess“ (2017) and „In AI We Trust: Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms“ (2021), “Future Needs Wisdom. An Intellectual Memoir” (2024).