Gabriele Gramelsberger

Biography

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gramelsberger holds the Chair for Theory of Science and Technology. Together with Prof. Dr. Stefan Böschen (Chair for Technology and Society) she is responsible for the Master’s program in Governance of Technology and Innovation. In 2018 she founded the CSS Lab, supported by the NRW Digital Fellowship 2017. Her aim is to develop a conceptual framework for Philosophy of Computational Scienes as well as an open science infrastructure for Computational Science Studies. She is a member of the RWTH Human Technology Center and serves as Vice Dean for Research of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the RWTH Aachen University. In 2018 the DFG appointed her as a member of the Allianz Initiative "Digitale Information". In 2019 she became a regular member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Science, Humanities and the Arts. She received her PhD in philosophy from the Freie Universität Berlin in 2002, where she taught from 2004 to 2014. In 2015 she became Privatdozentin at the TU Darmstadt, where she taught from 2014 to 2016. She was guest researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg (2007) and research fellow at the DFG “Media Cultures of Computer Simulation” Institute for Advanced Study at Leuphana University Lüneburg (2014 and 2015 to 2016). In 2016 she became Chair for Philosophy of Digital Media at the University Witten/Herdecke, and in 2017 Chair for Theory of Science and Technology at RWTH Aachen University.