Dr. Alma Kolleck

Content focus

• Digitization and politics, especially internet-based political communication and participation
• Interactions between technical innovations and social change
• Science communication; Roles of and conflicts about science in society
• Genetic Engineering and Society

Current positions

• Head of the TAB project “ Gene Drives – Technologies for spreading genetic changes in populations “
• Head of the TAB project “ Possible discrimination through algorithmic decision-making systems and machine learning “

Professional background

• Since 2017 research assistant at ITAS, active at TAB
• 2016 – 2017 Consultant for public participation at the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BfE)
• 2016 PhD in political science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on “Political discourses online”
• 2013 – 2016 PhD scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation
• 2011 – 2013 research assistant at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in the field of political science
• 2010 Research Associate at the University of Tübingen in a research project on “Smart CCTV”
• 2004 – 2009 studied political science and Spanish philology at the Free and Humboldt University in Berlin