Armin Grunwald

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

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

2013–2014 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. DOI: 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.

Focus of the commitment in the German Ethics Council