Sebastian Pfotenhauer

Sebastian Pfotenhauer is Carl von Linde Assistant Professor of Innovation Research and head of the Innovation, Society and Public Policy Research Group at the TUM School of Management and the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS). He is also the coordinator of the EU-Horizon2020 project SCALINGS (“Scaling up co-creation: Avenues and Limits for Integrating Society in Science and Innovation”) – a EUR 4 Million flagship initiative investigating use of new collaborative innovation formats such as living labs and pre-commercial procurement in robotics, autonomous driving, and urban energy systems across 10 countries. Sebastian’s research interests include regional innovation cultures and strategies; the global circulation of “best practice”  models of innovation; the global governance of emerging technologies; co-creation and responsible innovation practices; and capacity-building for development. Before joining TU Munich, Sebastian was a research scientist and lecturer with the MIT Technology & Policy Program and the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center, as well as a research fellow at the Harvard Program on Science, Technology and Society. He has served as consultant on innovation policy to various regional and national governments, as well as for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, France. His work has appeared, among other outlets, in Research Policy, Social Studies of Science, Nature, the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook, and Issues in Science and Technology. He holds an S.M. in Technology Policy from MIT and a PhD in Physics from the University of Jena, Germany, and has received post-doctoral training at MIT and Harvard.