Full-Time Lecturers
Prof. Dr. Alma Kolleck
Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
97070 Würzburg
by appointment
Human-technology interaction, especially in the field of digitalization and Artficial Intelligence (AI)
Science and technology studies
Technology assessment
Scientific work and research methods
Statistics in the social sciences, empirical social research
Publications
Publications (since 2022)
2025: »Wandel demokratischer Öffentlichkeiten durch Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz. Information, Kommunikation und Vertrauen in sich wandelnden digitalen Umgebungen«. In: Matthias Schmidt (Hg.): Kompendium Digitale Transformation. Velbert: UVG.
2025, gemeinsam mit Harald König und Arnold Sauter: »Gene Drives. Gene Drives – Technologien zur Verbreitung genetischer Veränderungen in Populationen«. Berlin: Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag (TAB). DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000179980; English short version here
2022: »Technikfolgenabschätzung in Zeiten multipler Krisen – wichtiger als je zuvor.« In: TAB-Brief (03/22).
2022: »Deepfakes im Videotelefonat oder: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick goes zoom.« In: TAB-Brief (02/22).
Presentations
November 20, 2025: Artificial Intelligence as a (Distorted) Mirror of Our Society, Schelling Forum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Würzburg on the topic “How Is Artificial Intelligence Changing Our Society?”
November 13, 2025: A Topography of Criticism of Science: Between Legitimate Debates and Populist Defamation, Annual Conference of the Society for Science and Technology Studies (Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung e.V.) in Dortmund
July 15, 2025: Trust and Distrust in “Autonomous Systems,” Virtual Ethical Innovation Lecture hosted by the Ethical Innovation Lab at the University of Lübeck.
February 15, 2025: Populist Attacks on Science, Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Higher Education Teaching of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) in Passau
Career
Academic and Professional Background
Since October 2024: Research Professor of Human Factors, Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences.
October 2023 – April 2024: Visiting Professor of Social Sciences with a focus on Technology and Society at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT)
September 2017 – August 2023: Research Associate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the Office for Technology Assessment (TAB) at the German Bundestag, Berlin
2016: Ph.D. from the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main