Michael Decker

Prof. Dr. Michael Decker

  • Kaiserstraße 12
    D-76131 Karlsruhe

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Current positions

  • Head of division (division II)
  • Professor for Technology Assessment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  • Full member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech)
  • Member of the advisory board “Technik im Dialog” (Technology in dialogue) of the VDI
  • Chairman of the INSIGHT advisory board of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Spokesperson of the Netzwerk Technikfolgenabschätzung (NTA)
  • Member of the supervisory board of the Nationales Institut für Wissenschaftskommunikation (NaWik)
  • Deputy chairman of the executive board of the Karlsruher Forums für Kultur, Recht und Technik e.V.
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Member of the cultural committee of the city of Karlsruhe as an expert
  • Member of the program advisory board of the science festival Effekte, Karlsruhe

Fields of work

Professional background

1991 - 1995 Member of scientific staff at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at Heidelberg University
1992 German university degree “Diplom” after studies in physics (minor subject economics) at Heidelberg University
1995 - 1997 Member of scientific staff at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart
1995 Doctor's degree in natural sciences at Heidelberg University (spectroscopy of oxygen in the high pressure combustion)
1997 - 2002 Member of scientific staff at the Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH
2003 - 2004 Member of scientific staff at ITAS
2004 - 2014 Deputy head of institute
2006 Habilitation at the University of Freiburg (interdisciplinary research for technology assessment)
2014 - 2015 Head of institute
since 2015 Head of “Division II - Informatics, Economics, and Society”

Recent publications


2024
Book Chapters
Decker, M.
Robotik
2024. Handbuch Technikphilosophie. Hrsg.: M. Gutmann, 355–364, J.B. Metzler 
Decker, M.; Grunwald, A.
Demands for, and motivations of, technology assessment
2024. Handbook of Technology Assessment. Ed.: A. Grunwald, 42–51, Edward Elgar Publishing. doi:10.4337/9781035310685.00011
2023
Journal Articles
Weinberger, N.; Krings, B.-J.; Decker, M.; Wiloth, S.; Eurich, J.
Ein Netzwerk der Sorge flechten - Der Einsatz assistiver Technologien in regionalen Versorgungsnetzwerken für Menschen mit Demenz
2023. Pflege & Gesellschaft, 28 (2), 137–152 
2022
Book Chapters
Bogner, A.; Nentwich, M.; Scherz, C.; Decker, M.
Technikfolgenabschätzung und die Zukunft der Demokratie : ein Überblick
2022. Digitalisierung und die Zukunft der Demokratie. Hrsg.: A. Bogner, 9–22, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748928928-9Full textFull text of the publication as PDF document
Books

List of publications at ITAS