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Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Ethical Innovation Hub

Dr. Daniela Zetti

Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
DE
  • Gebäude: Geb. 64
  • Raum: 0.106

Research Interests

  • History of Technology and Media
  • Technology Development

Curriculum Vitae

In my research I focus on the cultural and social history of technology and media. I appreciate working in interdisciplinary teams and commit to collaborative workspaces characterized by mutual respect. Since April 2020, I have been a lecturer at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies and a research associate at the Ethical Innovation Hub, both at the University of Lübeck.

In 2025, I will spend - thanks to a Spark Grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) - a year with the Section d'Histoire at the University of Lausanne to pursue research on the cultural and technological history of the Lausanne radio studios in La Sallaz. 


Memberships and Commitments 

2024 

Member of the Ethics Group of the Open Search Foundation

2024–

Founding member and treasurer of MediaHistory.ch

2023–

Member of HaPoC Council (Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing)

2013–

Member of the Board of the Society for the History of Technology (Gesellschaft für Technikgeschichte, gtg): Electoral Committee; Working Group Open Access


Academic Career

04/2020–

Research Associate at the Ethical Innovation Hub, University of Lubeck

04/2020– 

Lecturer (Dozentin) at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies (IMGWF), University of Lubeck

April 2022 – September 2023

Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, STS Department, Interim Professor for History of Technology

Winter Semester 2021/22

Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, STS Department, Visiting Professor acting for Prof. Dr. rer. oec. Karin Zachmann, History of Technology

2018–2020

Research Associate at Collegium Helveticum Zurich, fellowship period Digital Societies

2018–2020

Applicant and Co-Leader of Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) project “Digital Federalism”

2015–2019

Research Fellow at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Institute of Advanced Science on Media Cultures of Computer Simulation (MECS), supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG): winter term 2015, summer term 2018, summer term 2019

2014–2020

Research Associate at ETH Zurich, chair for the History of Technology (Prof. David Gugerli)

2013

Dr. sc. ETH Zurich in History of Technology

2006

Lic. phil. (= M.A.) University of Zurich in General History

Coming soon: lectures, publications, …

  • Talk: Herbert A. Simon's ill structured problem. Analytical concept and residual category of the digital age. Joint Harvard - Frankfurt Conference: After Surveillance. Digital Intermediaries of Confidence, Trust, and Security. Goethe University Frankfurt, 16-17 December 2025.
  • Talk: Noise, Sound and Silence. Exploring and Exhibiting the Cultural and Technical History of Radio Production. Conference: Exhibiting the Sound of History, International Conference, Hamburg, Altonaer Museum, 9-10 December 2024.
  • Joint ETH - TU Munich - Denkmalnetz Symposium: co-organizer with Andreas Putz, Hanns-Erik Endres: Sonic Spaces. The Past and Future of Broadcasting and Recording Studios, TU Munich, 20-21 November 2024.
  • Workshop Participation: Open Search Foundation Ethics Group, Center for Advanced Internet Studies CAIS, Ruhr University Bochum, 24-26 September 2024.
  • Book Contribution: Felix Mauch, Daniela Zetti: Infrastructuring Flows: Logistics and Networking across Time and Space. In: Christoph Brunner, Mathias Denecke, Beate Ochnser (eds.): Infrastructures of Sense-Making. Techniques, Powers, Operations. Lüneburg: meson press 2025 (forthcoming).
  • Conference Publication: Herzog né Hoffmann, Christian, Robin Preiss, Daniela Zetti: Digital Sovereignty as an ill-structured (or wicked ?) problem. In: Kox, Thomas, André Ulrich and Herbert Zech: Uncertain Journeys into digital futures. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2024. Baden-Baden 2024 (forthcoming).
  • Special Issue: Friedman, Michael, Daniela Zetti (Editors): Paper(s) as a Carrier of Knowledge. = Special Issue of Technikgeschichte 2024/3, doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2024-3 .
  • Essay: Zetti, Daniela. “Quantum Computing as Imagined Infrastructure.” Technology and Culture 65, no. 4 (2024), 1323–1334, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/940472 .
  • Book Contribution: David Gugerli, Daniela Zetti: Writing the History of Computing. The First Half Century. In: William Aspray: Writing Computer and Information History, Lanham 2024, 163–180.

Publications

See my homepage at the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science Studies.