Dr Anna-Verena Nosthoff has been appointed Junior Professor of the Ethics of Digitalisation at the Institute of Philosophy. Nosthoff studied philosophy, sociology, economics and political theory at the Universities of Mannheim and Frankfurt am Main, as well as at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA) and the University of London (UK). Nosthoff completed her studies with a Master's degree in Critical and Creative Analysis (Sociology) (2013) and a Master's degree in Political Theory (2016). She rearned her PhD at the University of Freiburg in 2024.
From 2018 to 2021, she was a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Vienna (Austria). This was followed by teaching assignments, for instance at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the Free University of Berlin. In 2019, Nosthoff worked as Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. She has undertaken research visits to the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and Princeton University (USA). From 2021 to 2022, she was co-director of the Data Politics Lab at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2022, she has been co-director of the Critical Data Lab (Berlin / Oldenburg), which critically examines the power of digital data.
Nosthoff's main fields of research are the social influence of large technology companies, the Platform Economy and the digital transformation of the public sphere. In future, she will also be researching the ethics and politics of immersive technologies and new forms of technological authoritarianism.
