22 August - 5 September 2023

Professor Sarah Hammer is Executive Director at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, leading financial technology initiatives and Wharton Cypher Accelerator, which supports leading global businesses that are leveraging financial technology. Hammer is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Affiliated Scholar at the Penn Program on Regulation.

Sarah Hammer is a board member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) at the United Nations.  Previously, she was Managing Director of the Center for Innovation in Finance and Senior Director of the Alternative Investments Program at Wharton. Hammer earned a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, and a Master of Studies from Oxford University.

During her visit to ENS, Hammer studied applications and legal issues related to artificial intelligence in financial services, including banking and asset management.

17 - 21 July 2023

Professor Theriault is a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently researching the effect of interpersonal relationships within the U.S. Congress. 

Professor Theriault has published five books: Congress: The First Branch (with Mickey Edwards; Oxford University Press, 2020), The Great Broadening (with Bryan Jones and Michelle Whyman; University of Chicago Press, 2019), The Gingrich Senators (Oxford University Press, 2013), Party Polarization in Congress (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and The Power of the People (Ohio State University Press, 2005). He has also published numerous articles in a variety of journals on subjects ranging from presidential rhetoric to congressional careers and the Louisiana Purchase to the Pendleton Act of 1883.

While in residence at ENS, he worked on two different projects. First, he continued his research into measuring the social relationships in the U.S. Senate as a step toward determining if they can help the institution solve problems even in an era of party polarization. Second, he worked with his former student, Mike Cowburn, a postdoctoral researcher at ENS, on a project that evaluates how primaries have contributed to party polarization in Congress. He was the guest of Professor Ulrike Klinger.

01 - 31 July 2023

Daniel Kreiss is the Edgar Thomas Cato Distinguished Professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a principal researcher of the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. Kreiss is the co-author of Power in Ideas: A Case-Based Argument for Taking Ideas Seriously in Political Communication Research (2021, Cambridge University Press), first author of Recoding the Boys’ Club: The Experiences and Future of Women in Political Technology (Oxford University Press, 2020), and author of Prototype Politics: Technology-Intensive Campaigning and the Data of Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama (Oxford University Press, 2012). Kreiss co-edits the Oxford University Press book series Journalism and Political Communication Unbound and is an associate editor of Political Communication. Kreiss is an affiliated fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School and received a Ph.D. in Communication from Stanford University.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, Daniel worked to co-organize an internationally attended symposium and workshop on theorizing the far-right in the areas of digital studies, media studies and political communication. Daniel is interested in foregrounding questions of power, social difference, democracy, and inequality in the study of political communication.

01 - 31 July 2023

Sarah Jackson is a Presidential Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director of the Center for Media, Inequality & Change. Her work considers how media, journalism and technology are used by and represent marginalized publics, with a focus on how communication arising from Black, feminist, and activist spaces contributes to U.S. culture and politics. She is the author of Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press (2014), co-author of #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (2020) and is currently working on Carnegie-supported research that traces the power and innovation of African-American media-makers.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, she worked to co-organize an internationally attended symposium and workshop on theorizing the far-right in the areas of digital studies, media studies and political communication. She is concerned with pushing the field forward on conceptual and ethical problems raised by relying on theories from the margins to study groups working to entrench antidemocratic relations of power. She was hosted by Professor Ulrike Klinger at the Chair for Digital Democracy.

26 June - 28 July 2023

Jens Frankenreiter works and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is an Associate Professor of Law. Jens’ research utilizes empirical methods to study the intersection of business law, contract law, and comparative law. He is particularly interested in the changes that globalization and new technologies visit upon these fields. His work draws on methods from economics, statistics, and data science to improve our understanding of contracting, private and public lawmaking, and legal institutions. A particular focus of his work is on the use of large amounts of texts and other forms of big data.

He was hosted by Professor Philipp Hacker at the Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society.

23 June - 7 July 2023

Dora Kaufman is Professor of social and ethical impacts of AI at the Intelligence Technologies and Digital Design Program at Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil. She also writes as a columnist for the Época Negócios Magazine (Globo Group) and for major media such as Globo, Valor Econômico and Folha de São Paulo. Moreover, she is involved in elaborating the AI regulatory framework in Brazil, author of several books, including "Will Artificial Intelligence Overtake Human Intelligence?" (2019) and "Demystifying Artificial Intelligence" (2022). Her current research focuses on developing AI governance, AI guidelines, AI code of conduct and an AI ethics committee for organizations in Brazil.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, she works on a comparative study of European AI regulation (AI Act) and Brazilian AI regulation concerning similarities and differences in processes and content. She is hosted by Professor Philipp Hacker of the Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society.

1 June - 15 June 2023 | 1 July - 7 July 2023

Sandra Wachter is Professor of Technology and Regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford where she researches the legal and ethical implications of AI, Big Data, and robotics as well as internet and platform regulation. Her current research focuses on profiling, inferential analytics, explainable AI, algorithmic bias, diversity, and fairness, as well as governmental surveillance, predictive policing, human rights online, and health tech and medical law.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, she conducts ciritical studies on important technological issues around privacy, algorithmic decision-making, automated fairness and bias. She also has a strong focus on providing concrete solutions to enable better governance of emerging technologies. She is hosted by Professor Philipp Hacker of the Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society.

1 June - 7 July 2023

Professor Brent Mittelstadt is Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford where he co-leads the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) research program, working across ethics, law and emerging information technologies. His prior work has addressed the ethics of algorithms, AI, and Big Data; fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning; data protection and non-discrimination law; group privacy; ethical auditing of automated systems; and digital epidemiology and public health ethics.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, he will analyze the effectiveness of technical and organisational accountability tools for trustworthy AI as well as the feasibility of future professional liability regimes for developers. He is hosted by Professor Philipp Hacker of the Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society.

12 - 19 June 2023

Stefan Eich is Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University where he researches the political theory of money and the politics of financial capitalism. He is the 2022/23 Richard B. Fisher Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton. He has written about the history and politics of digital money, global monetary reform, economic democracy, and climate finance. Eich is the author of The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes (Princeton University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Prize. 

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, he worked on the politics of the “de-risking state” by investigating the underlying concept of risk that has emerged as a central category of contemporary governance from climate finance to the regulation of new technologies. This forms part of a larger project on John Maynard Keynes and the politics of uncertainty. He was hosted by Professor Philipp Hacker at the Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society.

1 April - 30 June 2023

Alla Kozhyna is Doctor of Science in Public Administration and Professor of the Department of Public Management and Administration at the National Aviation University in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Her current research focus is on digitalization in public spheres and digital inclusion as a challenge for European societies and governments, including the improvement of digital literacy for public servants and the influence of digital technologies on the quality of life of vulnerable and marginalized populations.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, she works on a comparative study of European countries with the aim to strenghten German-Polish-Ukrainian scientific cooperation. She is hosted by Professor Jan-Hendrik Passoth at the Chair for Sociology of Technology.

19 September 2022 - 10 February 2023

Professor Robert Geisler is doctor habilitated in sociology, Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Opole, Poland and expert evaluator in the EU funding program Horizon 2020. In recent years, he has been involved in a number of research projects in the fields of entrepreneurship and innovation, networked organizations, organizational culture, business ethnography and big data analysis.

As a Visiting Professor at ENS, he will analyze sharing economy case studies as examples of digital entrepreneurship in the EU. He is hosted by Professor Jan-Hendrik Passoth at the Chair for Sociology of Technology.

18 July - 17 October 2022

Justyna Stypinska has recently worked as a researcher and lecturer at the department for Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin. She has completed her PhD at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków on the topic of “Ageism in the labor market. A sociological-legal analysis.” Her research focuses on multiple forms of age discrimination and age inequalities in contemporary societies, especially in their most recent digital forms.

At ENS, she is hosted by Professor Ulrike Klinger at the Chair for Digital Democracy and is conducting research on age bias in algorithms and artificial intelligence, as well as ageism in tech industry and Silicon Valley.

09 May - 22 June 2022 | 03 October 2022 - 30 January 2023 | 06 March - 27 March 2023

Prof. Dr. Dariusz Jemielniak holds a professorship of Management in Networked and Digital Societies at Kozminski University and is a faculty associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Moreover, he is a Board of Trustees member of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, and a corresponding member of Polish Academy of Sciences.

During his time as a Visiting Professor at ENS, he will be working on collecting comparable datasets from German social media in the areas of medical, scientific and political disinformation, and collaborate with PhD researchers on a Thick Big Data approach.

01 March - 15 May 2022

Mennatullah Hendawy is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University in Cairo.

As an interdisciplinary urban researcher, she is working at the intersection of cities, technology and sustainability with a focus on visualization, digitalization and mediatization. At ENS, she is hosted by Prof. Ulrike Klinger at the Chair for Digital Democracy. 

01 March - 30 April 2022

Nina Amelung has completed her PhD in Sociology at TU Berlin in 2018 and is currently affiliated with the Social Science Department of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. At ENS, she was working on her current project “Social and political implications of transnational biometric databases in migration and crime control (AFFECT)” and extend research collaborations linked to the STS MIGTEC network co-initiated with ENS researcher Dr. Silvan Pollozek.

Check out the interview about her stay at ENS on the Viadrina homepage.