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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann (n\u00e9 Sebastian Volkmann) is Junior Professor for Ethics of Digital Methods and Technologies (with Tenure Track, positive intermediate evaluation) at the Ruhr University Bochum<\/a>\u2019s Institute for Philosophy I<\/a>. He is a Principle Investigator in the graduate academy SecHuman<\/a> on cyber security and has lead the ethical research in several projects on the use of AI in Higher Education contexts. Until January 2020, he worked at the Univer<\/em>sity of Freiburg’s Centre for Security and Society<\/a> and Husserl Archive<\/a>, where he was leading the Freiburg research contribution to the EU H2020 project TRESSPASS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Contact details:<\/h3>\n

Email: sebastian.weydner-volkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de<\/a>
\nAddress: Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum, Universit\u00e4tsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
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ORCID: orcid.org\/0000-0003-3948-4770<\/a><\/p>\n

Academic profile<\/h3>\n

Since February 2020, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann (n\u00e9 Sebastian Volkmann) is Junior Professor for Ethics of Digital Methods and Technologies (Tenure Track) at the Ruhr University Bochum.<\/a> He is part of the University’s Institute for Philosophy I<\/a>. In March 2023, he received a positive intermediate evaluation. He is a Principle Investigator in the graduate academy SecHuman<\/a> on cyber security and leads the ethical research on AI in Higher Education contexts in KI:edu.nrw<\/a> (first and second funding phase) and AIStudyBuddy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before that, starting from 2012, he had been working at the University of Freiburg’s Husserl Archive<\/a> and Centre for Security and Society<\/a>.\u00a0Since October 2017, he was a member of the regular teaching and research staff at the Department of Philosophy.<\/p>\n

Prof. Dr. Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann was involved in a range of applied ethical research projects in the field of civil security provision. In the EU FP7 project SURVEILLE<\/a>, he conducted research on the ethical and perceptive dimensions of surveillance technology (Mai-August 2012).\u00a0From September 2012 to August 2017, he developed a typology and ethical evaluation framework for airport checkpoints as part of the EU FP7 project XP-DITE<\/a>. One of the major goals of this research was to provide guidance on ethical and societal aspects\u00a0in the design process of airport checkpoints, especially on the protection of fundamental rights and privacy. From October 2015 to September 2017, he has accompanied the development of an innovative, privacy respecting solution for THz body scanners as part of the EU FP7 project TeraSCREEN<\/a>. From June 2018 until is appointment as Junior Professor, he led the University of Freiburg’s research contribution the EU H2020 project TRESSPASS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Weydner-Volkmann has completed his PhD at the University of Freiburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans-Helmuth Gander<\/a>. His thesis has been published under the title “Moralische Landkarten der Sicherheit.\u00a0Ein Framework zur hermeneutisch-ethischen Bewertung von Fluggastkontrollen im Anschluss an John Dewey” (“Moral Maps of Security Provision. A Hermeneutical Framework for the Ethical Evaluation of Airport Passenger Screening Following John Dewey”). For his thesis, Prof. Dr. Weydner-Volkmann was awarded the Wetzstein Award for Philosophy 2017.<\/p>\n

Main research interests<\/h3>\n