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Technical University of Munich

M.Sc. Anja Kathrin Rueß

Doctoral candidate

Science and Technology Policy

Studies in Politics and Public Administration (B.A. 2016) and Sustainable Energy, specialization: Energy Policy and Law, (M.Sc. 2018) at the University of Konstanz and Reykjavik University. Research stay at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis Karlsruhe (November 2017). Since October 2018 doctoral candidate of Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller at the Chair for Science and Technology Policy (MCTS) of the Technical University of Munich.

  • Energy policy and structural planning
  • Social identities and power relations in scenarios of conflict
  • Participatory technology assessment
  • Nuclear waste governance
  • Co-Production of science, technology and society

  • Ruess, A. K., & Müller, R. (2024). Finding solutions to problems that never existed: a case study of co-creation in the municipality of the future. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2391574
  • Schönweitz, F. B., Ruess, A. K. & Müller, R. (2024). From Being Embedded in Practice: Working Situated and Interdisciplinary in the Neurosciences and Neurocomputation as Ethicists and Social Scientists, In: M. Ienca & G. Starke, Brains and Machines: Towards a unified Ethics of AI and Neuroscience – Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics, 7, pp. 225–240. London: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.dnb.2024.02.001
  • Müller, R., Ruess, A. K., Eisenberger, I., Buocz, T., Damjanovic, D., Hofer, A. & Sedef, A. (2021). Co-creating European Futures: Innovation, Participation and Co-creation in Europe 2030. Munich: SCALINGS.
  • Ruess, A. K., Müller, R. & Pfotenhauer, S. M. (2023). Opportunity or Responsibility? Tracing Co-creation in the European Policy Discourse. Science & Public Policy, 50, 433–444. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scac079
  • Willem, T., Fritzsche, M.-C., Zimmermann, B. M., Sierawska, A., Breuer, S., Braun, M., Ruess, A. K., Bak, M., Schönweitz, F., Meier, L. J., Fiske, A., Tigard, D., Müller, R., McLennan, S. y Buyx, A. (2025). Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research. Science and Engineering Ethics, 31(3), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00523-y
  • Schönweitz, F. B., Ruess, A. K., McLennan, S., Buyx, A. & Ienca, M. (2024). Where Is the Exit? The Ethical Importance of Exit Plans in Clinical Trials with Neural Implants. Brain Stimulation, 17(5), 1145-1154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2024.09.010
  • Müller, R., Clare, A. & Ruess, A. K. (2023). STS and Bioethics: Forging New Synergies for Exploring the Potentials and Pitfalls of Public Engagement with New Biotechnologies, The American Journal of Bioethics, 23, 72–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2207505
  • Müller, R., Ruess, A. K., Schönweitz, F. B., Buyx, A., Gil Ávila, C. & Ploner, M. (2023). Next steps for global collaboration to minimize racial and ethnic bias in neuroscience. Nature Neuroscience, 26, 1132–1133. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01369-6
  • Astola, M., Laes, E., Bombaerts, G., Ryszawska, B., Rozwadowska, M., Szymanski, P., Ruess, A. K., Nyborg, S., & Hansen, M. (2022). Community Heroes and Sleeping Members: Interdependency of the Tenets of Energy Justice. Science and Engineering Ethics, 28, 45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-022-00384-3
  • Ruess, A. K. & Pfotenhauer, S. M. (2021). Evaluation Zukunftskommune Ulm: Abschlussbericht, München: TUM.
  • Müller, R., Ruess, A. K., Eisenberger, I., Buocz, T., Damjanovic, D., Hofer, A. & Sedef, A. (2021). Co-creating European Futures: Innovation, Participation and Co-creation in Europe 2030. Munich: SCALINGS.

  • Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2013-2018)
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