Digital People: Interview with experts

Here, through interviews, we introduce you to people who have immersed themselves in the digital world and are helping to shape it through new structures, through their teaching or their innovation(s).

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Episode 19: Monika Landgraf

Monika Landgraf is head of the overall communications department at KIT. She is also KIT's press spokesperson, deputy head of the Staff and Strategy Service Unit (STS) and acting head of the Central Marketing Department. (NL03/2023)

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Episode 18: Moritz Mödinger

Moritz Mödinger has been working as a research assistant at the Research Center for School Sport and Sport for Children and Adolescents (FoSS) at the Institute of Sport and Sport Science (IfSS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since 2019. He is also a lecturer at the Seminar for Teacher Training in Heilbronn and works as a teacher at Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Lauffen am Neckar. (NL02/2023)

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Episode 17: Dr.-Ing. Polina Häfner

Since June 2012, Polina Häfner has been a research associate at the Institute for Information Management in Engineering (IMI) and is mainly involved in basic and contract research in the field of virtual reality. (NL01/2023)

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Episode 16: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Ingo Wagner

Since 2018, Ingo Wagner has been working as a junior professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads the department "Interdisciplinary Didactics of STEM Subjects and Sports". (NL03/2022)

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Episode 15: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Jürgen Becker

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Jürgen Becker heads the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV) and is director in the Embedded Systems and Sensors Engineering (ESS) division at the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI). At KIT, he heads the research area "Embedded Electronic Systems". (NL02/2022)

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Episode14: Dr. Matthias Bandtel

In the fourteenth episode, Matthias Bandtel takes our questions. He is the managing director of the Hochschulnetzwerk Digitalisierung der Lehre Baden-Württemberg (HND-BW). (NL01/2022)

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Episode 13: Prof. Dr. Ute Schepers

In the last episode of "Digital People" this year, Prof. Dr. Ute Schepers answers our questions. She heads the Chemical Biology Group at the Institute for Functional Interfaces (IFG). She is also co-founder of the startup vasQlab. (NL03/2021)

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Episode 12: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eric Sax

In the twelfth episode, Eric Sax answers our questions. He heads the Institute for Information Processing Technology (ITIV) and is director at the Computer Science Research Center in the ESS division. He is also a KIT expert on autonomous driving. (NL02/2021)

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Episode 11: Dr. Alexander Haas

In the eleventh episode, Dr. Alexander Haas answers our questions. He heads the Digital Office at KIT, which supports KIT in its digitization efforts. In addition, the Digital Office advises and supports the management level in shaping digitization. (NL01/2021)

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Episode 10: Ass. jur. Marina Bitmann

In the tenth episode, Marina Bitmann faces our questions. She has been KIT's data protection officer since 2013. Her task is to support KIT in the implementation of the State Data Protection Act as well as other legal provisions on data protection. (NL03/2020)

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Episode 9: Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Jivka Ovtcharova

In the ninth episode of Digital People, Jivka Ovtcharova answers our questions. The professor with a double doctorate in mechanical engineering and computer science is head of the Institute for Information Management in Engineering (IMI) and director at the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI). With the focus areas of her institute, Prof. Ovtcharova makes a decisive contribution to making traditional engineering work based on modern technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence fascinating and tangible. (NL02/2020)

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Episode 8: Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade

In the first Newsletter 2020, Professor Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade answers our questions. He is head of the research group "Cryptography and Security" at KIT and director at FZI. He is speaker and initiator of the Competence Center KASTEL. His research interests include secure cloud computing, secure multiparty computing, security definitions and models, and hardware trust anchors. (NL01/2020)

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Episode 7: PD Dr. Gudrun Thäter

In the seventh episode, Gudrun Thäter faces our questions. She is a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and conducts research primarily in the areas of mathematical flow theory and modeling in the context of fluids. In addition, she is involved as an information officer and has launched a podcast together with Sebastian Ritterbusch. (NL03/2019)

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Episode 6: Prof. Dr. Alexander Waibel

In the second newsletter of 2019, Alexander Waibel answers our questions. He heads the Interactive Systems Lab at the Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics at the KIT Faculty of Computer Science. His research focuses on machine learning and speech recognition. (NL02/2019)

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Episode 5: Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer

In the first newsletter of 2019, Melanie Volkamer answers our questions. She leads the Security*Usability*Society (SECUSO) research group at KIT, which has been part of the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Languages (AIFB) since 2018. (NL01/2019)

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Episode 4: Dr. Bettina-Johanna Krings

In the fourth episode, Dr. Bettina-Johanna Krings took the time to answer our five questions. She heads the Knowledge Society and Knowledge Policy research area at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS). (NL04/2018)

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Episode 3: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Torsten Kröger

Prof. Torsten Kröger, member of the management of the Institute of Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR) at KIT, faces our questions in the third episode. (NL03/2018)

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Episode 2: Dr. Klaus Rümmele

In our second episode, we address our five questions to Dr. Klaus Rümmele, who heads the International Communication Department in KIT's International Services Unit. (NL02/2018)

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Episode 1: Prof. Dr. Gerd Gidion

We will start with Gerd Gidion, the scientific director of the Center for Medial Learning and professor for technology didactics at the Institute for Vocational and General Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. (NL01/2018)

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