Head of the Ethical Innovation Hub
Dr.-Ing. Christian Herzog
Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine
Ratzeburger Allee 160
23562 Lübeck
Gebäude 64,
Raum 0.106
| Email: | christian.herzog(at)uni-luebeck.de |
| Phone: | +49 451 3101 6211 |
Research Interests
- Ethics of technology, esp. ethical and societal aspects of artificial intelligence
- Transdisciplinary and participative research for Responsible Research & Innovation in practice
- Scholarship of teaching in engineering ethics
- Explainable, probabilistic graphical models for inference algorithms
Curriculum Vitae
I am a transdisciplinary researcher originally trained at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, were I received my B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Mechatronics in 2008 and 2011. I also did my Ph.D. at the Institute of Control Systems of the same university, focusing on the robust and parameter-varying control of nonlinear and interconnected systems. Since 2015 I have been holding a tenured position at the Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine at the University of Lübeck. While having engaged in the ethics and sustainability issues of technology by conducting peer-to-peer teaching since 2011, from 2016 I have begun to professionally shift my research focus towards the ethics of engineering, innovative technologies and artificial intelligence in particular. In that course, I have also received my M.A. in Applied and Professional Ethics from the University of Leeds. I commit to teaching engineering ethics, promoting broad and inclusive participation in technology development as well as researching and fostering interdisciplinary approaches in engineering research for the benefit of our world's ecology and society.
Memberships and Commitments
| 6/2020– | Member, Expert Council AI@Society of the State Government, Schleswig-Holstein |
| 12/2019 | "Make Bureaucracy Great Again?!" with Jan Philipp Albrecht |
| 07/2019 | Co-organization of mini-symposium “Ethical Design Considerations in MedTech” at the EMBC |
| 2018–2019 | Co-Host of "Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning" Session at Lübeck Summer Academy on Medical Technology |
| 2018– | Working group on "Artificial Intelligence" of the German Institute for Standardization |
| 02/2018 | "Machines and Morals" with Dr. Robert Habeck |
| 2016–2017 | Member of the "Dialog Forum Ethik" of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lübeck |
| 2014 | Member, IEEE, Society on Social Implications of Technology |
| 2012 | Member, IEEE, Control Systems Society |
Awards
| 2018 | Innovation Award of the "Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Krankenhaustechnik e.V. (WGKT)", (for a supervised bachelor thesis) |
| 2018 | Best Paper Award (Runner up), AUTOMED |
| 2017 | Walter-Dosch Lehrpreis, Universität zu Lübeck |
| 2012 | Nordmetall-Foundation Award, Best Master's Thesis |
| 2008 | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erich Müller Scholarship |
| 2008 | General Engineering Award of Hamburg University of Technology |
Academic Career
| 2018–2020 | Master of Arts in Applied & Professional Ethics, University of Leeds, with Distinction |
| 01/2020– | Head of the Ethical Innovation Hub, University of Lübeck |
| 04/2015– | Research Fellow at the Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine, University of Lübeck |
| 2015 | Dr.-Ing in Control Theory, Hamburg University of Technology, Summa Cum Laude |
| 2011–2015 | Research Associate at the Institute of Control Systems, Hamburg University of Technology |
| 2011 | Master of Science in Mechatronics, Hamburg University of Technology, with Distinction |
| 2010– | Founding Member, Blue Engineering Group, Hamburg University of Technology |
| 2008 | Bachelor of Science in General Engineering Science, Hamburg University of Technology |
Publications
For a complete list of my publications (most of which published under my birth name "Hoffmann) including topics from engineering, control theory and probabilistic inference, please visit my page at the Institute for Electrical Engineering in Medicine.
Christian
Herzog,
Christoph
Rehmann-Sutter,
Jan
Haase,
Mattias
Heinrich,
Floris
Ernst,
Elmar
Rückert,
Inke R.
König,
Andreas
Schrader,
Moreen
Heine,
Amir
Madany Mamlouk,
Thomas
Franke,
Philipp
Rostalski, and
Thomas
Martinetz,
Ethische Leitsätze für die Erforschung und Verwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz an der Universität zu Lübeck, 2019.
Ethische Leitsätze für die Erforschung und Verwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz an der Universität zu Lübeck, 2019.
| Bibtex: |  @unpublished{Herzog2019f,
address = {Lübeck},
author = {Herzog, Christian and Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph and Haase, Jan and Heinrich, Mattias and Ernst, Floris and Rückert, Elmar and König, Inke R. and Schrader, Andreas and Heine, Moreen and Madany Mamlouk, Amir and Franke, Thomas and Rostalski, Philipp and Martinetz, Thomas},
institution = {University of Lübeck},
title = {Ethische Leitsätze für die Erforschung und Verwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz an der Universität zu Lübeck},
year = {2019}
}
|
Christian
Herzog,
Sabine
Hackenjos,
Nicola
Lucas,
Lars
Schöning, and
Friederike C.
Kühn,
Reviving the Honorable Merchant in the Age of Digitization, 2019.
Reviving the Honorable Merchant in the Age of Digitization, 2019.
| Bibtex: | @unpublished{Herzog2019,
address = {Lübeck, Germany},
author = {Herzog, Christian and Hackenjos, Sabine and Lucas, Nicola and Schöning, Lars and Kühn, Friederike C.},
booktitle = {Final Report on the Dialog Forum "Ethics of Digitization" Conducted by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Lübeck},
title = {Reviving the Honorable Merchant in the Age of Digitization},
year = {2019}
} |
Christian Herzog,
Ethics of Innovative Engineering – A Commitment to Peer-to-Peer-Learning, in Excellent Teaching. Principles, Structures and Requirements , Jansen-Schulz, Bettina and Tantau, Till, Eds. Bielefeld: wbv Media GmbH & Co. KG, 2018, pp. 269-278.
Ethics of Innovative Engineering – A Commitment to Peer-to-Peer-Learning, in Excellent Teaching. Principles, Structures and Requirements , Jansen-Schulz, Bettina and Tantau, Till, Eds. Bielefeld: wbv Media GmbH & Co. KG, 2018, pp. 269-278.
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Herzog2019e,
address = {Berlin, Germany},
author = {Herzog, Christian},
booktitle = {41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Mini Symposium on "Ethical Design Considerations for MedTec"},
title = {Ethical and Epistemological Challenges of AI in Medical Systems},
year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{GomesAtaide,
address = {Berlin, Germany},
author = {Gomes Ataide, Elmer Jeto and Maartens, Joachim and Bartling, Sönke and Hutmacher, Dietmar W. and Herzog, Christian and Friebe, Michael},
booktitle = {41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Mini Symposium on "Ethical Design Considerations for MedTec"},
title = {Ethical Design Considerations for MedTec: The Big Picture and Accompanying Concerns},
year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Herzog2019c,
address = {Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany},
author = {Herzog, Christian},
booktitle = {KI-Konferenz Schleswig-Holstein},
publisher = {Staatskanzlei Schleswig-Holstein},
title = {„Ethical Innovation Hub“ – Vision und Konzept eines transdisziplinären Konvergenzpunkts für Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft für KI-Innovationsprozesse},
year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Herzog2019b,
address = {Berlin, Germany},
author = {Herzog, Christian},
booktitle = {2nd Weizenbaum Conference: Challenges of Digital Inequality - Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.7},
title = {Technological Opacity of Machine Learning in Healthcare},
year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{Herzog2019a,
address = {Berlin, Germany},
author = {Herzog, Christian and Friebe, Michael},
booktitle = {41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Mini Symposium on "Ethical Design Considerations for MedTec"},
title = {Ethics as an Essential Teaching Element for Innovative Medical Technology Engineering Education},
year = {2019}
}
@unpublished{Herzog2019,
address = {Berlin, Germany},
author = {Herzog, Christian and Hackenjos, Sabine and Lucas, Nicola and Schöning, Lars and Kühn, Friederike C.},
booktitle = {2nd Weizenbaum Conference - Challenges of Digital Inequality},
title = {Reviving the Honorable Merchant in the Age of Digitization},
year = {2019}
}
@inproceedings{HeTaRo18,
author = {Herzog, Christian and Tantau, Till and Rostalski, Philipp},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education},
title = {Study Program 'Robotics and Autonomous Systems' at the University of Lübeck}},
year = {2018}
}
@incollection{Herzog2018,
address = {Bielefeld},
author = {Herzog, Christian},
booktitle = {Excellent Teaching. Principles, Structures and Requirements},
editor = {Jansen-Schulz, Bettina and Tantau, Till},
pages = {269--278},
publisher = {wbv Media GmbH {\&} Co. KG},
title = {Ethics of Innovative Engineering – A Commitment to Peer-to-Peer-Learning},
year = {2018}
}
|
Christian
Herzog,
Till
Tantau, and
Philipp
Rostalski,
Study Program 'Robotics and Autonomous Systems' at the University of Lübeck, in Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education , 2018.
Study Program 'Robotics and Autonomous Systems' at the University of Lübeck, in Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education , 2018.
| Bibtex: | @inproceedings{Herzog2018b,
author = {Herzog, Christian and Tantau, Till and Rostalski, Philipp},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Microelectronics Education},
title = {Study Program 'Robotics and Autonomous Systems' at the University of Lübeck},
year = {2018}
} |
