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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Petra Schaper Rinkel

Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Vice Rector for Digitization at the University of Graz

Petra Schaper Rinkel is Professor of Science and Technology Studies of the Digital Transformation and Vice Rector for Digitization at Karl Franzens University Graz. Previously, she was responsible for foresight projects at the European level and for the strategic development of the research field "Societal Futures" at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and established foresight and technology assessment at the Austrian Parliament for the AIT.

Her research focuses on innovation research, the governance of future technologies, digital transformation, and methods for anticipating the future. Her publications and lectures combine questions of social theory with approaches to the design and shaping of future technologies.

She has advised national and European research funding organizations on the further development of funding programs for future technologies and is involved in the board of the Science Center.